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What is our scientific name and what does it mean?

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Humans are known as a Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens is the systematic name used in taxonomy for anatomically modern humans, i.e. the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl.

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