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by ErroneousBosh 1 day ago
> We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be.

Terry Pratchett said that a better name for humans would be Pan narrans, "Story-telling Chimpanzee".

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And by saying that, and a some other things, he himself can be called one of the few homo sapiens.