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“latin for ‘wise man'”
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(aka “human beings”)
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(the closest living relatives of humans are ‘gorillas’ and ‘chimpanzees’, but ‘humans’ did not evolve from these ‘apes’: instead these ‘apes’ share a common ancestor with ‘modern humans’)
(‘humans’ are probably most closely related to 2 ‘chimpanzee’ species: ‘common chimpanzee’ and ‘bonobo’)
(‘homo’ is latin, in the original sense of “human being”, or “man” (in the ‘gender-neutral sense’))
(the word “human” itself is from latin humanus, an adjective cognate to homo, both thought to derive from a proto-indo-european word for “earth” reconstructed as “*dhǵhem-e”)
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