Word: sapiently
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...lines split from a single parent stock, homo erectus, and at different times independently developed into homo sapiens. "Homo erectus, then, evolved into homo sapiens not once but five times, as each subspecies, living in its own territory, passed a critical threshold from a more brutal to a more sapient state...
...third conclusion is the most controversial. Coon suggests that the different racial lines became home sapiens at different times; thus, all though the Caucasoid stock became sapient relatively early, Negroes passed the threshold recently--perhaps only 50,000 years ago, or as much as 150,000 years later than Caucasoids. Racists have eagerly misinterpreted this as proof of the "primitiveness" of Negroes, although Coon suggests no such thing. Such an interpretation is disastrously false: there has never been any proof of social differences in intelligence, or mental characteristics of any kind, with the exception of certain non-biological, culturally conditioned...
...more sapient director might have restrained Kendra Stearns (Mae) from overacting quite so much, but it is difficult to see what anyone could have done with Gooper (Robert Higgins) or Doctor Baugh (Nick Pyle), except perhaps not casting them. John van Sickle, on the other hand, was quite adequate as Reverend Tooker...
Limited to the principles, rather than the mechanics, of unity, Aeterna Dei Sapient ia forcefully reflected the Pope's own oft-expressed dream of healing the breach between Christendom's largest branches. But to many Protestants and Orthodox Christians, the encyclical seemed as much a reminder of unacceptable papal claims as a warm appeal for unity...
...Rome last week, heard Washington Lawyer Andrew G. Haley describe the basis of what he called "metalaw" (a coinage modeled on metaphysics). Doing unto others as we would they do unto us, said Haley, may not work with other "forms of existence." The spacemen of tomorrow may encounter "sapient beings different in kind," which may require that we "do unto others as they would have done unto them. We must treat them as they desire to be treated...