sapientization

alternative sapientisation

1. uncountableThe process of evolving into Homo sapiens.

   But about 300,000 years ago, during the European Second Interglacial period, "the first evidence of sapientisation occurred," and the fossil remains begin to express the stages toward the emergence of modern humanity.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118