human species
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From early on, what has set the human species apart from all others is the ability to direct ever-increasing power toward our ends.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The thrust of the tale is that we are the only surviving human species among several that once roamed the Earth, a line that has been around more than 300,000 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
The human species, Huxley affirms, should embrace transhumanism: “man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.”
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
And the human species is way overpopulated, about four times overpopulated now.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024
We already have slow interstellar flight, and think fast interstellar flight a possible goal for the human species.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
