Homo sapiens

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This is the peculiar predicament of Homo sapiens.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The discovery pushes back the oldest known evidence of rainforest habitation by more than double previous estimates and suggests early Homo sapiens were far more adaptable than once believed.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Scientists increasingly believe that this flexibility may have helped Homo sapiens spread successfully across the world while other human relatives disappeared.

From Science Daily • May 20, 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

Homo sapiens lived for untold millennia without them.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari