Homines sapientes
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Translingual[edit]
Noun[edit]
Homines sapientes m
- plural of Homo sapiens
- 1892, Yale University, The Yale Review (in English), page 142:
- She ridicules the caution that would introduce backward people slowly to new ideas and goods, lest the old ways be disrupted: she would have us offer freely all we have, and with the blithe unconsciousness of the G.I., paying people the compliment of regarding them as Homines sapientes.
- 1962, Carleton Stevens Coon, The Origin of Races (in English), page 600:
- They were as good as the recent work of Bushmen, and this circumstantial evidence suggests that the men who made these tools were Homines sapientes.
- 2003, Julian Lowell Coolidge, A History of Geometrical Methods (in English), page 1:
- Whatever be our definition of the Homo sapiens, he must be accorded some geometrical ideas; in fact, there would have been geometry if there had been no Homines sapientes at all.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Homo sapiens.