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Recent Examples of Homo sapiens
As the Neanderthals gradually disappeared around 40,000 years ago—partly due to competition with our own species—Homo sapiens began taking shelter-building in new directions.
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Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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.
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Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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.
—
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
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In the history of mankind, socialist success stories are as rare as triple plays in baseball, but plenty of countries have been wrecked by it — Venezuela and Cuba, to name just two.
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Burbank argued that just as plants could be improved through careful crossbreeding to optimize their positive characteristics, the same opportunity existed for the improvement of mankind.
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In a related trend, there’s been a surge in adding philosophers and humanities graduates to AI teams, also to keep the technology within the bounds of human needs.
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The result is an endless technological arms race humanity seems destined to lose.
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Of note, this will also be the first human spaceflight from SLC-40 as KSC’s pad will be in preparation for the Europa Clipper launch in October.
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The story of humans fighting a robot race bent on the former’s destruction ends up being a microscope on the national mood of the 2000s, and that’s a phenomenal achievement.
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“Homo sapiens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Homo%20sapiens. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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