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
Even if some of these newer revelations are true, what would this mean for us as a human species?
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
Since Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed only a small amount of DNA to our present-day genome, it is impossible to speak of a ‘merger’ between Sapiens and other human species.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
