Homo Sapien means “Wise human” in Latin.
That’s already a fairly ironic joke, considering. However, it gets better.
Because anthropologists have identified other ancient subspecies of Homo sapiens, for example, Homo sapiens neandertalensis, modern humans are now known as Homo sapiens sapiens.
That, of course, means “wise wise human,” which seems to be really overstating the matter. smrt.
