Homo sapien

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And the timber is much older than the earliest modern human - or Homo sapien - fossils, which are about 315,000 years old.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023

Now, let’s see if we can put our allegedly big Homo sapien brains to use to wrangle the stampede of inexorable drought.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2021

“This thing is as old as we thought it was, and it was probably the earliest Homo sapien out of Africa ever found,’” said Dr. Quam.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018

Allen halts his survey of prehistory abruptly with Neanderthals about 30,000 years ago, with no consideration of what home meant for Homo sapien cave artists, farmers and early city-dwellers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2016

Unfortunately, this quality runs smack up against the Homo sapien tradition of tribalism.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2011