Examples of “sapiens” in a Sentence

noun A human being, as in the species name Homo sapiens.

• 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. — Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution (2005)
• Modern sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago.
• The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food. — William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies (2000)