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why are we called humans? :)​

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Answered by santhipriya01
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The name "Homo sapiens" means 'wise man' or 'knowledgeable man'. In common usage, the word human generally just refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant species. ... Human is a Middle English loanword from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the adjectival form of homō ('man' — in the sense of humankind).

Answered by ThePious
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The name "Homo sapiens" means 'wise man' or 'knowledgeable man'. In common usage, the word human generally just refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant species. Human is a Middle English loanword from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the adjectival form of homō ('man' — in the sense of humankind).

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Carl Linnaeus

Humanity was named Homo sapiens by Carl Linnaeus, the father of the modern system for classifying organisms, in 1758.

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