And the Stress Age Homo Sapiens of 2005 has not evolved much from Stone Age man.
Two distinct traits of Homo sapiens, as compared to other species, are technology and social cooperation among non-relatives.
If that series of circumstances had been even slightly different, there would have been no egg-headed Homo sapiens.
This is that Homo sapiens became sole ruler of the planet because he was better at manipulating tools.
But many questions remain about the genetic relationships between these early modern humans and present-day Homo sapiens populations.
American college kids, whatever their charms, are a laughable proxy for Homo sapiens.
Taxes is explicitly about ecological sustainabiilty amongst any group of heavy-handed Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and lived only there for around 100, 000 years.
No other primate has ever experienced a childhood as lengthy as Homo sapiens.
Our own species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa, and displaced the Neanderthals after entering Europe somewhere around the 45, 000-year mark.
Obviously, if there were no Homo sapiens, Sandy would have caused pretty much the same overwash, with or without warmer seas.
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Forty thousand years ago, their long-lost Homo sapiens cousins from Africa began to show their high-browed, dark-skinned faces in Neanderthals' haunts.
He told Konig that he was banning phallic imagery the most obvious sign that an alien was designed by a nerdy Homo sapiens.
Certainly something must explain the success of Homo sapiens, and the speed with which the species spread and swept other hominids away.
And crucially, like polio, smallpox had only one animal host: Homo sapiens.
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It's said that Canis lupus familiaris is Homo sapiens' best friend, but it's a relationship in which the dog has the upper paw.
There is archaeological evidence, for example, that the Homo sapiens that coexisted with Neanderthals had needles that they used to make tailored clothing.
"Lucy", "The Black Skull, " "Twiggy" and "The Taung Child" respectively prove there were walking beings similar to humans in Africa before us Homo sapiens emerged.
Homo sapiens last shared a common ancestor with our robust cousins around 600, 000 years ago, well prior to the origin of both modern humans (see above) and Neanderthals.
It has been known for some time that the grip of Homo neanderthalis was different from, and in some ways inferior to, that of Homo sapiens.
While we can in part blame poor education and dodgy scientific review, I fear (rationally, of course), that it is simply in the nature of Homo sapiens.
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But only Homo sapiens has turned lying into an art.
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Anthropologists now believe Homo sapiens succeeded, unlike other members of the genus Homo, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon for example, because our brains had a greater capacity for speech and language.
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Hotel staff will even dog sit while you explore the city, and just in case you're feeling left out, there's a steam room and spa, strictly for Homo sapiens.
Asians, on average, tend to be smaller with shorter extremities and long torsos evolutionary adaptations to harsh climes encountered by Homo sapiens who migrated to Northeast Asia 40, 000 years ago.
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This body of water is some 7, 000km west of Toba in the East African Rift Valley, from where our Homo sapiens species emerged in the past 100, 000 years or so.
Biodiversity may be the name of the game on Earth, but for many mammals, like Homo sapiens, there are also easily 1200 known pathogens that make us sick or kill us.
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You see, a current ad for the brand shows an ape, then an early hominid seeing a can of Dr. Pepper, and finally a homo sapiens drinking a can of the soda.
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Gastronomic orthodoxy has been in flux ever since Homo sapiens began to exercise choices about how to feed his appetites, instead of simply tucking into the first quadruped that came within range.
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