Homo sapiens
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They lived across a large expanse of Europe and western and central Asia, and sometimes overlapped with our species, Homo sapiens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Together, the findings suggest that early Homo sapiens lived alongside numerous related human groups in Africa and Eurasia during the past million years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Meanwhile, modern Homo sapiens have existed for only 300,000 years, and what are the odds we make it even another millennium?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Nominally the case turned on OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company and Mr. Musk’s worries about Homo sapiens being displaced by superintelligent robots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for such tasks.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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