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ErroneousBoshtoday at 7:48 AM1 replyview on HN

> 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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Shoreltoday at 8:47 AM

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