Human
Humans (Homo sapiens) are primates of the family Hominidae, and the only extant species of the genus Homo. They originated in Africa, where they reached anatomical modernity about 200,000 years ago and began to exhibit full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.
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“If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
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—Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–1990)
“... dependence upon material possessions inevitably results in the destruction of human character.”
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