Here's the point: Homo sapiens is the "thinking man" by definition. But the Homo sapiens sapiens is a subspecie of the Homo sapiens. Putting it differently; it's a step further in the evolution of the modern man.
And we; in this extant form; belong to the Homo sapiens sapiens - since there are still other subspecies of the Homo sapiens like; Homo sapiens neanderthalis, and the Homo sapiens idaltu
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