Are We Homo sapiens Yet?
We may appreciate the Enlightenment-era optimism about our intrinsic epistemological capacity, but when the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) coined the term Homo sapiens, this was not the Socratic mandate to know thyself. Instead our “knowledge” belonged to a com-plex classificatory t...
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M.I.T. Press
2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122800 |