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单词 Homo sapiens
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Definition of Homo sapiens in English:

Homo sapiens

noun ˌhɒməʊ ˈsapɪɛnzˌhəʊməʊ ˈsapɪɛnzˈhōmō ˈsāpēənz
  • 1The primate species to which modern humans belong; humans regarded as a species.

    智人;人类。参见HOMO

    See also Homo
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the middle of this cave, resting on the ground, lay a nearly complete lower jaw that may represent the oldest known example of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Europe.
    • By about 25,000 years ago, the only hominid species that remained was Homo sapiens.
    • The Qafzeh Cave in Israel contains skeletal remains of modern Homo sapiens that are more than 90,000 years old, as well as more recent signs of human occupation.
    • Skeletal remains have been instrumental in establishing the evolution of human ancestors in Africa, and they have also provided important information about the evolution of modern Homo sapiens.
    • A glance at the fossil remains of these hominids shows that Neandertal bones are much more robust than those of modern Homo sapiens.
    • At the most basic level a human can be defined as a person belonging to the Homo sapiens species.
    • Our own species, Homo sapiens, probably evolved in Africa, but nobody really knows the details of where, when, or from whom.
    • It clearly belongs to our species Homo sapiens, but it defies attribution to a specific modern human group.
    • Many millennia after this great migration out of Africa, archaic Homo evolved into modern Homo sapiens, who still later domesticated animals, perhaps in at least two separate episodes.
    • Over the course of the next 20,000 years, Homo sapiens pushed other hominid species to extinction and established populations in Australia, Asia, and Europe.
    • The scientists, DNA experts from Glagow University, have also discovered where the mysterious creature should go in the fossil record and the evolutionary chart of man and how it gave rise to modern humans, or Homo sapiens.
    • Yet fossils alone do not provide clear answers to the question of whether the ancestors of all modern Homo sapiens comprised a single African population or an amalgamation of distinct archaic populations.
    • Whether or not there is any truth in the legends, the creature would have lived at the same time as our own branch of the human family, Homo sapiens.
    • The species to which you and all other living human beings on this planet belong is Homo sapiens.
    • I've suffered much disappointment in my long life but have not yet lost all faith in the species Homo sapiens.
    • Crow suggests that speciation to modern Homo sapiens was accomplished by a change on the Y chromosome that increased brain lateralization and concomitant language skills among males.
    • Scientists believe that one of these unnamed species evolved into Homo sapiens about 300,000 years ago.
    • One of the most fundamental characteristics of our species Homo sapiens is its unquenchable curiosity about the world around it, and about itself and its place in that world in particular.
    • Humanoid bones found near the camel's remains are thought to belong to modern man, Homo sapiens.
    • This discovery bridges the gap between our earlier ancestors, Homo erectus, and modern humans, Homo sapiens.
    Synonyms
    person, human being, personage, mortal, member of the human race
    1. 1.1 A member of the Homo Sapiens species; a human being.
      a small barefoot Homo sapiens could have made the footprints
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We Homo sapiens are descended from bipedal primates - usually called hominids - that first appeared in Africa some 5 million years ago.

Origin

Latin, literally 'wise man'.

Definition of Homo sapiens in US English:

Homo sapiens

nounˈhōmō ˈsāpēənz
  • 1The primate species to which modern humans belong; humans regarded as a species.

    智人;人类。参见HOMO

    See also Homo
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the most fundamental characteristics of our species Homo sapiens is its unquenchable curiosity about the world around it, and about itself and its place in that world in particular.
    • Humanoid bones found near the camel's remains are thought to belong to modern man, Homo sapiens.
    • Yet fossils alone do not provide clear answers to the question of whether the ancestors of all modern Homo sapiens comprised a single African population or an amalgamation of distinct archaic populations.
    • This discovery bridges the gap between our earlier ancestors, Homo erectus, and modern humans, Homo sapiens.
    • Skeletal remains have been instrumental in establishing the evolution of human ancestors in Africa, and they have also provided important information about the evolution of modern Homo sapiens.
    • In the middle of this cave, resting on the ground, lay a nearly complete lower jaw that may represent the oldest known example of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Europe.
    • Scientists believe that one of these unnamed species evolved into Homo sapiens about 300,000 years ago.
    • The scientists, DNA experts from Glagow University, have also discovered where the mysterious creature should go in the fossil record and the evolutionary chart of man and how it gave rise to modern humans, or Homo sapiens.
    • Crow suggests that speciation to modern Homo sapiens was accomplished by a change on the Y chromosome that increased brain lateralization and concomitant language skills among males.
    • The Qafzeh Cave in Israel contains skeletal remains of modern Homo sapiens that are more than 90,000 years old, as well as more recent signs of human occupation.
    • Over the course of the next 20,000 years, Homo sapiens pushed other hominid species to extinction and established populations in Australia, Asia, and Europe.
    • A glance at the fossil remains of these hominids shows that Neandertal bones are much more robust than those of modern Homo sapiens.
    • Whether or not there is any truth in the legends, the creature would have lived at the same time as our own branch of the human family, Homo sapiens.
    • It clearly belongs to our species Homo sapiens, but it defies attribution to a specific modern human group.
    • Our own species, Homo sapiens, probably evolved in Africa, but nobody really knows the details of where, when, or from whom.
    • I've suffered much disappointment in my long life but have not yet lost all faith in the species Homo sapiens.
    • The species to which you and all other living human beings on this planet belong is Homo sapiens.
    • By about 25,000 years ago, the only hominid species that remained was Homo sapiens.
    • At the most basic level a human can be defined as a person belonging to the Homo sapiens species.
    • Many millennia after this great migration out of Africa, archaic Homo evolved into modern Homo sapiens, who still later domesticated animals, perhaps in at least two separate episodes.
    Synonyms
    person, human being, personage, mortal, member of the human race
    1. 1.1 A member of the Homo Sapiens species; a human being.
      a small barefoot Homo sapiens could have made the footprints
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We Homo sapiens are descended from bipedal primates - usually called hominids - that first appeared in Africa some 5 million years ago.

Origin

Latin, literally ‘wise man’.

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