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Recent Examples of Homo sapiens
Yunxian 2 provides a clearer example of an earlier lineage, suggesting that several major human lineages—Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and sister species like Homo longi—may have co-existed for hundreds of thousands of years, interacting and potentially interbreeding.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
Homo sapiens are highly socialized animals prone to cooperate when necessary.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
Homo sapiens are highly socialized animals prone to cooperate when necessary.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Homo sapiens
Noun
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There are only 66 short years between 1903, when the Wright Brothers flew the world’s first airplane, and 1969, when mankind landed on the moon.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These technologies are revolutionizing humanity’s ability to catalog Earth’s species, which are estimated to number 8 million—though perhaps far, far more—by illuminating the teeming life that so often eludes human observation.—
Marion Renault,
The Atlantic,
29 Sep. 2025
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Through their actions, humanity’s relationship to day and night was reinvented – often in ways that Edison never could have anticipated.—
Ernest Freeberg,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When a spillover happens from animals to humans in any part of the world, when people travel, that virus can quickly spread.—
Alice Park,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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These newly aware companies’ high-speed trading of financial projects destroys the Earth itself, forcing humans to flee to the margins of the solar system.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Homo sapiens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Homo%20sapiens. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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