Thus Homo
sapiens means «thinking man,» and Homo erectus means «upright man,» and so forth.
We didn't evolve from monkeys... we evolved from apes (h0m0
sapiens means wise ape), with a common ancestor to monkeys.
Not exact matches
Many biologists, and not the least eminent among them (all being convinced that Man, like everything else, emerged by evolutionary
means, i.e. was born in Nature) undoubtedly still believe that the human species, having attained the level of Homo
sapiens, has reached an upper organic limit beyond which it can not develop, so that anthropogenesis is only of retrospective interest.
The successive mass extinctions and even the regular extinction of species by more gradual
means throughout the earth's history would suggest that time is indeed limited for H0mo
sapiens.
But that doesn't
mean those specimens, or the Moroccan finds, were H.
sapiens, he contends.
This
means that the Palaeolithic (Ice Age) cave art — including pictures of animals, dots and geometric signs — must have been made by Neanderthals, a «sister» species to Homo
sapiens, and Europe's sole human inhabitants at the time.
Although this doesn't
mean that Neanderthals weren't as intelligent as humans, the brains of Homo
sapiens developed to support higher - order functions, such as creativity and communication.
If we
mean the earliest representatives of Homo, the genus to which we belong, then the answer is quite different from the one if we
mean the earliest people whose anatomy closely resembles our own (so - called anatomically modern Homo
sapiens).
Thus, every human being belongs to only one hominid species, that is, Homo
sapiens, which is a Latin word that
means «wise man».
It's a profound thought to ponder; while it doesn't
mean there are actually more species out there, it's certainly a humbling thing for us know - it - all homo
sapiens to consider.
The plain
meaning of homo
sapiens is completely consistent with extending legal coverage to Kryptonians.