But that's terrible. We are homo sapiens.

We are the species called Homo sapiens sapiens, and it's important to remember that, in terms of our place in the world today and our future on planet Earth.

He actually coined the term Homo sapiens it means wise man in Latin.

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis.

I mean, it's self awareness that separates Homo sapiens from earlier instances of our mankind.

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens.

Now the question is, we Homo sapiens today are in a position to decide about the future of our planet, possibly more.

And that's the reason why, as you look at the hominid fossil record, erectus, and heidelbergensis, and floresiensis, and Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens, all overlap.

And our ancestors lived in that game park, but were just the minorities. They were not as successful and as widespread as the Homo sapiens that we are.

And Homo sapiens are one small leaf on a very extensive Tree of Life, which is densely populated by organisms that have been honed for survival over millions of years.

By the end of the hand axe epic, Homo sapiens as they were then called, finally were doubtless finding new ways to amuse and amaze each other by, who knows, telling jokes, storytelling, dancing, or hairstyling.

I, as a cyborg anthropologist, have suddenly said, Oh, wow. Now suddenly we're a new form of Homo sapiens, and look at these fascinating cultures, and look at these curious rituals that everybody's doing around this technology.

Given this hybridization, some researchers argue that the species boundary between modern humans and Neanderthals should be reconsidered, and that both should be classified as Homo sapiens. But I believe that a morphology based species distinction is still warranted.

The first observation is something that you might think is quite obvious, and that's that our species, Homo sapiens, is actually really, really smart like, ridiculously smart like you're all doing things that no other species on the planet does right now.

Given that humans morphological and behavioral characteristics evolved at different rates, this question is a source of controversy. Indeed, paleontologists studying the physical origins of Homo sapiens will inevitably differ from archaeologists reconstructing ancient behavior over what constitutes an early modern human.

I think it's probably the case that, in the human evolutionary lineage, even before there were homo sapiens, feelings like compassion and love and sympathy had earned their way into the gene pool, and biologists have a pretty clear idea of how this first happened.

For example, according to Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, medical and nutritional advances since the Industrial Revolution have accelerated and directed the evolutionary process, making modern humans a fundamentally different species from Homo sapiens. In 2011, bio technology investor Juan Enriquez coined the term Homo evolutis to denote this shift.

Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen staring, button clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on external brains to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves.

Even Sub Saharan Africans of today show traces of a distinct episode of interbreeding within the last 50,000 years. In this case, the source may have been as yet unknown remnants of the ancient species Homo heidelbergensis a direct ancestor of both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis surviving somewhere in southern Africa.

Of course, in addition to extracting this huge amount of scientific information as to what makes us human, you know, the many human ancestors that have existed over the past six million years and there are more than 10 they did not have the knowledge, the technology and sophistications that we, Homo sapiens, have today.

So Homo sapiens, the first technology creating species, the species that combined a cognitive function with an opposable appendage and by the way, chimpanzees don't really have a very good opposable thumb so we could actually manipulate our environment with a power grip and fine motor coordination, and use our mental models to actually change the world and bring on technology.

Moreover, genetic evidence, based on distinct DNA coding that is known to be related to brain functions in modern humans, suggests at least some cognitive contrasts between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. And demographic differences (small, low density populations) may have hindered Neanderthals cultural evolution, compared with the wider networks established by early modern human groups, initially in Africa, and subsequently worldwide.

However, once we set aside its elitist history, there remains a strong element of truth to this idea, especially when applied to the humanities. Although we now think of academic disciplines, including the humanities, as being research led, this understates the university s historic role in converting the primate Homo sapiens into a creature whose interests, aspirations, and achievements extend beyond successful sexual reproduction.

But new evidence suggests that modern humans evolved relatively recently in Africa and that the transformation that they underwent after their departure some 60,000 years ago was far from seamless. Specifically, studies of Homo sapiens close but extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, are revealing new facets of modern human development, while intensifying the long running debate over the differences between the two species behavioral capabilities.

The biological answer is simple a member of the species Homo sapiens that is characterized by such features as a relatively large brain set in a globular braincase, small brow ridges over the eyes, a small retracted face, a chin on the lower jaw, and a lightly built skeleton. Many of modern humans biological traits at least those that can be preserved as fossils were already present in Africa and Israel more than 100,000 years ago.