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Homo sapiens
[ hoh-moh sey-pee-uhnz ]
noun
- the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) belong, characterized by a large brain, a nearly vertical forehead, a skeletal build lighter and teeth smaller than earlier humans, and dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools: the species has existed for about 200,000 years. Boskop man, Cro-Magnon, Marmes man, Niah Cave.
Homo sapiens
/ ˈæɪˌɛԳ /
noun
- the specific name of modern man; the only extant species of the genus Homo. This species also includes extinct types of primitive man such as Cro-Magnon man See also man
Homo sapiens
/ ′ŧ-əԳ /
- The modern species of humans. Archaic forms of Homo sapiens probably evolved around 300,000 years ago or earlier in Africa, and anatomically modern fossils are known from about 100,000 years ago. All humans now living belong to the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens . The closest living relative of Homo sapiens is the chimpanzee.
- See more at archaic Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
- The biological classification of modern humans. Homo sapiens is Latin for “the wise human” or “the clever human.” The earliest Homo sapiens was Neanderthal , who developed about 150,000 years ago. Sometimes modern humans are further classified into the subspecies of Homo sapiens neanderthalis (Neanderthals) and Homo sapiens sapiens ( Cro-Magnons and present-day humans). ( See Linnean classification .)
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Origin of Homo sapiens1
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Origin of Homo sapiens1
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The research for the first time pinpoints a short period 48,000 years ago when Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals after leaving Africa, after which they went on to expand into the wider world.
“Homo sapiens is a unique species in that our vastly superior intelligence does not seem, in the majority of individuals at least, to inhibit irrational destruction of its own species,” dos Santos told Salon.
It has 50 times more DNA than Homo sapiens, the species that figured out what DNA is in the first place.
The research team examined genomes from 59 ancient Homo sapiens individuals, mostly from Western Europe and Asia, dating from between 45,000 and 2200 years ago.
"Why did Neanderthals disappear from the stage around the same time as Homo sapiens spread over regions where Neanderthals had lived successfully for almost half a million years?"
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