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Definition of sapiens

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noun

A human being (Homo sapiens).

“The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.”
“Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.”

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noun

A human being (Homo sapiens).

“The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.”
“Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.”

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From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).

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