William S. Burroughs

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

American Writer

Melvin Van Peebles

The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.

American Actor

Greta Thunburg

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Swedish Environmentalist

Al Jourgensen

I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.

Cuban Musician

Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

American Novelist

Henri Bergson

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

French Philosopher

Henry Rollins

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

American Musician

Eric Idle

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

English Comedian

Manila Luzon

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

American Celebrity

Yuval Noah Harari

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

Israeli Historian

Used in biology to classify humans and related species; not for general human reference.

Scientific Usage

It's a Latin word meaning 'man'; often used in scientific Latin phrases.

Latin Origin

Don't confuse with 'Homo sapiens', which specifically refers to modern humans.

Not Interchangeable

Can be considered offensive; safer to use 'gay' or 'homosexual' to be respectful.

Sensitive Term

Understand the cultural and emotional weight of the word; use with care.

Cultural Sensitivity

Word usage has changed over time; what was once common might now be offensive.

Historical Usage

 Most of these became vestigial long before homo sapiens existed, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next. But why have they stuck around for so long? To answer this question, it helps to understand natural selection. Natural selection simply means that traits

Why do humans have a...

 Most legal systems today in the world are based on a belief in human rights. But what are human rights? Human rights, just like God and heaven, are just a story that we've invented. They are not an objective reality; they are not some biological effect about homo sapiens.

Why humans run the world...

 that eventually gave rise to our own species, homo sapiens. Brain size tripled, and bipedalism freed the hands for communication. There may have been a transition from gestural communication to gestural language— from pointing to objects and pantomiming actions—

Evolution’s great...

 Whatever corner of the globe you find homo sapiens in today, you’re likely to find another species Canis lupus familiaris. Whether they’re herding, hunting, sledding, or slouching the sheer variety of domestic dogs is staggering.

A brief history of dogs...

 neoliberal economic theory became essentially a protection racket for the rich. The third assumption, and by far the most pernicious, is a behavioral model that describes human beings as something called "homo economicus,"

The dirty secret of...

 And my father was a freedom fighter. My mother was, well, just a fighter like mothers are. And much like the original homo sapiens, we struggled to survive. When I was in my early 20s, I lost both my parents,

Thoughts on humanity,...

 There's this fact that I love that I read somewhere once, that one of the things that's contributed to homo sapiens' success as a species is our lack of body hair -- that our hairlessness, our nakedness

My love letter to...

 - Neanderthals are often depicted as brutish cave men, but science shows that our early ancestors were actually quite advanced. Neanderthals, or homo neanderthalensis,

Neanderthals 101 PIPE...

 How are we doing? No, no, no, by that, I meant, how are we, homo sapiens "we" doing as a species? Now the typical way to answer that question is this.

How will we survive when...

 These hominins fell into three major groups. Early hominins, australopithecines, and homo genus. Humanity's earliest relatives