You have it. The term homo sapiens is latin and means a wise man. Homo=man. Sapiens= wise, judicious, thinking.
Because - the prefix 'homo' is from the Latin word 'hominis' - meaning 'human being'. The word 'homosexual'is a hybrid from Greek and Latin... From the Greek ὁμός homos, "same".
Translated literally from the latin it meant "man wise wise" or wise wise man and it means man who knows - and knows that he knows - ie he has a sense of his own being. It is what truly distinguishes us from other sentient beings.
The scientific name for modern humans is Homo sapiens, where Homo refers to the genus and sapiens means wise or discerning in Latin. It emphasizes the cognitive abilities and intelligence that distinguish humans from other species.
They didn't! You see homo sapien means "modern human", so that must mean us!
um... we did! Yay us!If you mean neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) there are many theories to why they lost to us.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Extinction
It's the same thing. Cro-Magnon, homo sapiens, homo sapiens sapiens. They all mean modern humans.
The English meaning of the Latin word 'sapiens' is wise, sensible, judicious. It's the participle of the verb 'sapere', which means 'to have a flavor or taste'; 'to be able or have a taste'; or 'to be sensible or wise, discern, think'.
Sapien, derived from the latin language, translates into the word wise. Put with Homo as Homo sapien, it would be loosely transfered as "Wise Man"
Because - the prefix 'homo' is from the Latin word 'hominis' - meaning 'human being'. The word 'homosexual'is a hybrid from Greek and Latin... From the Greek ὁμός homos, "same".
Translated literally from the latin it meant "man wise wise" or wise wise man and it means man who knows - and knows that he knows - ie he has a sense of his own being. It is what truly distinguishes us from other sentient beings.
The scientific name for modern humans is Homo sapiens, where Homo refers to the genus and sapiens means wise or discerning in Latin. It emphasizes the cognitive abilities and intelligence that distinguish humans from other species.
They didn't! You see homo sapien means "modern human", so that must mean us!
Homo sapiens means wise man, thinking man, rational man, knowing man.It is the species name for us, humans, sometimes referred to as anatomically modern humans or AMH. Our trinomial name is homo sapiens sapiens . The skeleton taxonomy is :-Domain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum Chordata / ( sub P. Vertebrata )Class Mammalia / ( sub C. Theria )Order PrimatesFamily HominidaeGenus HomoSpecies H. sapiens / ( sub S. H.s.sapiens )You can find the full taxonomy on Wikipedia under "homo sapiens"It should be "homo sapiens". It means "wise man" and it's the Latin name of our species - i.e. humans.It combines the Latin word homo (mankind) with the adjective sapiens (wise, sensible, understanding) to describe the modern human race. The implication is that all previous forms of humankind were stupid, which is a completely false idea.It means 'wise man', or 'learned man'.
um... we did! Yay us!If you mean neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) there are many theories to why they lost to us.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Extinction
If you mean Drake from "Drake and Josh," the answer is Homo sapiens.
The Latin word "homo" means person, human being.
Homo sapiens is the scientific name for modern humans. It refers to the species to which all humans belong.