英语词汇homo sapiens的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	homo sapiens
词源	homo sapiens. Carolus Linnaeus (1707–78), the great Swed- ish botanist and methodical classifier of things animal, vegeta- ble, and mineral, gave the name homo sapiens, “thinking man,” to the human species. Before this the Latin homo, “man,” had been similarly used, Shakespeare writing in Henry IV, Part II: “Homo is a common name to all men.” Linnaeus also first used the Mars (&male$) and Venus (&female$) symbols as symbols for male and female.
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