Question

What is the main difference between Homo sapiens and homo sapiens sapiens

Answer 1

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Homo sapiens refers to us and some very closely related, but extinct, groups of early humans. Homo sapiens sapiens is just us. The second sapiens is our subspecies. A subspecies is a population that still counts as the same species as another population, but is isolated and also distinct in some way.

Answer 2

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When you say Homo sapiens sapiens, you refer only to anatomically modern humans and exclude Homo sapiens idaltu (image below) — a now extinct subspecies of humans: When you say Homo sapiens, you refer to our species in its entirety, including anatomically modern humans, H. s.