This reminds me of an article someone posted titled Homo Stultus: The Case For Renaming Ourselves. It mentions that Homo Sapiens means "wise man", but:

The more fitting name is Homo stultus—“foolish man.”

To most people I'm sure that might sound a bit misanthropic, but:

To rename ourselves Homo stultus is not mere cynicism. It is an act of moral realism. Names shape identity, and identity shapes behavior. To be “wise man” is to assume that wisdom already defines us; to be “foolish man” is to recognize that it does not. Such recognition could mark the beginning of genuine wisdom—the kind born of humility rather than hubris.

I think it's actually a pretty valid wake up call. The article brings up a lot of good points.

Here are a couple more quotes talking about the problem:

The root of our folly lies in the myth of human exceptionalism

Anthropocentrism, in other words, is a kind of education—a cultural conditioning that replaces empathy with hierarchy.

I've actually started thinking we're due for a name change now myself. It's like holding up a mirror that confronts us with an image that maybe most of us never look at very honestly if we can avoid it. It might help if we started looking at ourselves as we are demonstrating ourselves to be by our actions, rather than the more comforting yet ignorant narratives we tell ourselves. Maybe then we can start trying to become actual Homo Sapiens.