sapiens

[ sey-pee-uhnz ]

adjective

Origin of sapiens

Borrowed into English from New Latin around 1935–40

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The most recent common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was an ape that moved on all fours, had a skeleton a lot like a modern chimp’s, and, perhaps most important of all, had a chimp-sized brain, not our inflated sapiens brain.
Why Do We Have to Die? - Issue 104: Harmony | Aaron Hirsh | August 4, 2021 | Nautilus
For example, humans aren’t just sapiens — that’s our species.
Scientists Say: Genus | Bethany Brookshire | May 10, 2021 | Science News For Students
Understanding odds has never been a strength of Homo sapiens.
A Doctor Explains Why Cruise Ships Should Be Banned | Kent Sepkowitz | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In some very real sense, 21st-century Hollywood has forgotten how to use living, breathing Homo sapiens in action movies.
Game of Thrones’ 'The Watchers on the Wall': The Battle of Castle Black Is One For the Ages | Andrew Romano | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But in terms of beneficial public-health impact, nothing Homo sapiens has invented thus far outpaces the vaccine.
Get Your Damn Flu Shot | Kent Sepkowitz | January 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

I have discovered the sapiens' blood is the only antidote to your contamination.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks | Max Brooks | January 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He'd reveal definite indications of belonging to Homo sapiens only when drinking beer and talking about his holes.
The Holes and John Smith | Edward W. Ludwig
But an extremely primitive race has survived until the present time to demonstrate the original type of Homo sapiens.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | Various
"sapiens," that is, a wise man, one who had attained to wisdom.
The City of God, Volume I | Aurelius Augustine
Quo responso aperte declaravit vir gravis et sapiens lege, quam tulerat Gracchus, patrimonium publicum dissipari.
Selections from Viri Romae | Charles Franois L'Homond
Eam vir sanctus et sapiens sciet veram esse victoriam, quae, salva fide et integra dignitate, parabitur.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de Montaigne

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