Talk:Homo Novus (species)/@comment-38602581-20191005062413/@comment-25453085-20191222030840

that's what Homo Novus means in Latin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_homo

we are just following the same naming system used for homosapien. By that logic we should be calling our species  wise man (Homosapien, means 'wise man')