Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") is the taxonomic binomial species name for modern humans.
Look up Homo sapiens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wikispecies has information related to Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens or Homo Sapiens may also refer to:
- Homo Sapiens (band), an Italian pop-rock band
Albums
- Homo sapiens, Jorge Ben
- Homo Sapiens (album), 1994 album by Finnish rock group YUP
- Homosapien (album), 1981 album by Pete Shelley
Songs
- "Homo Sapiens" (song), 2006 song from The Cooper Temple Clause's third album Make This Your Own released in 2007
- "Homosapien" (song), the 1981 title track by Pete Shelley
- Homo Sapien, song from Lenka's 2017 album, Attune.
- Homo Sapiens 1900, 1998 documentary directed by Peter Cohen
- Homo Sapiens (film), 2016 documentary directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Homo sapiens (novel), 1896 novel about deviance and sexuality, by Stanisław Przybyszewski
- Early modern human
- List of alternative names for the human species
- See Human subspecies for proposed subspecies of Homo sapiens:
- Homo sapiens idaltu, a proposed subspecies (extinct) related to the modern human subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens
- Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, an alternative to Homo neanderthalsis that implies Neanderthal man might be a subspecies more closely related to modern humans
- Homo sapiens rhodesiensis, an alternative nomenclature for Homo rhodesiensis
- Homo sapiens sapiens, subspecies that precisely represents modern humans, the earliest of whom emerged about 200,000 years ago – the only human subspecies still alive on Earth
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