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sapien

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sapien.

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Your dog has some input into your modern homo sapien sapien mind.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sapien gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

(rare, proscribed) A human, a specimen of Homo sapiens.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sapien.

noun

A surname.

noun

(rare, proscribed) A human, a specimen of Homo sapiens.

Example sentences

1

Your dog has some input into your modern homo sapien sapien mind.

2

Given that T-Rex survived for about 3 million years, and that Homo Sapien is up to 0.5 million I'd say the jury is sitll out.

3

The disappearance (really, the admixture with other hominids) of pre-homo sapien hominids is fascinating to me.

4

Prudence suggests waiting until the Borg has assimilated the homo sapien malcontents before wearing one.

5

I wouldn't place any bets on the emergence of an appendix-free homo sapien offshoot any time soon.

6

While a Homo economicus plays the Prisoner’s Dilemma, a Homo sapien plays Calvinball.

7

Is it even homo sapien or a different species (or no species)?

8

Well then why bother discussing pre-homo sapien speciation at all?

9

Quisque quis purus a magna scelerisque egestas quis id sapien.

10

I have often wondered why the world's homo sapien population did not grow faster during the period 200,000 BC to 10,000 BC.

11

Maybe their women found homo sapien men more attractive.

12

There are millions of years of evolution built into us and inherited from our ancestors that determined that a modern homo sapien is destined to require some animal products in their consumption inventory.

Quote examples

1

Homo Sapien Sapien are nothing more than one end of a gradient of "intelligence", "sentience", etc.

2

Even better: I called one of my classmates a homo sapien, he went to the teacher and complained (he thought it meant he was gay) and the teacher said "you are a homo sapien".

3

I'm not saying it isn't worth discussing pre-homo sapien speciation at all, I'm saying that the vague idea that the Neanderthals are some "other thing" from our genetic heritage (as compared with, say, Cro-Magnon) has become less tenable as genetic analysis has advanced.

4

If I were in the Olive Garden, and suddenly I noticed that all the waiters and patrons were androids, and all of them claimed I was a computer simulation of a 2009 Homo Sapien running for their entertainment, I don't think my first thought would be "If I just leave the Olive Garden, all of this will go away" To these folks, a dozen people in scale mail would probably be nearly as convincing.

Proper noun examples

1

Homo Sapien-Sapien's ability to 10X the effective group size put them apart in terms of their impact as a species, perhaps wiping out cousin species like Neanderthals (the timing works).

2

Sapien's Muse is a current project of mine to try and create a newsfeed that will help people become exposed to new thoughts and ideas.

3

I'm out of my depth talking about evolution, so I don't know when we would stop classifying a species as Homo Erectus and start calling it Homo Sapien.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use sapien in a sentence?

Your dog has some input into your modern homo sapien sapien mind.

What does sapien mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is sapien?

sapien is commonly used as noun.