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
Denisovans later mixed with Homo sapiens, allowing a small portion of that super-archaic DNA to enter the genomes of modern humans.
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
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
The transformation of a Homo sapiens into a Meleagris gallopavo had not just happened with a wave of the wand.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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