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* ''Film/TheCannibalInTheJungle'' is a FoundFootage mockumentary special showing an expedition to Flores in 1977 that goes array when the team is stalked, harassed, and then hunted by a tribe of what the locals call "Ebu Gogo", ''Homo floresiensis''. A follow-up expedition in 2015 strongly implies they're still out there.
* ''Film/CrimesOfTheFuture2022'': {{Discussed}} as some people's biological changes no later make them identical to "classical" humans. The government seeks to prohibit this, though a resistance group embraces the idea. Some regular humans violently oppose this to the point of murdering such divergent people.

* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'': The Engineers are genetically human, but while very humanoid in general appearance, their bodies look like they're [[SculptedPhysique carved from white stone]], they're 9 to 10 feet tall, [[OrganicTechnology their flesh is apparently fused to their skeletal-looking space suits]].
* {{Implied|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Society}}''. [[spoiler:The titular society of outwardly human monsters [[LovecraftianSuperpower can distort and mutate their bodies in anatomically impossible ways]], even being able physically merge into each other (which they call 'shunting') while literally consuming a hapless victim by assimilating his body mass. When Bill calls them "alien scum", they claim that they didn't come from outer space and that their inhuman traits are simply the result of "impeccable breeding" -- however, one Society member claims that they've "been here as long as you", implying either a separate species native to Earth or a divergent evolutionary path]]. WordOfGod is that [[spoiler:they are descendants of humans who were taken over by a parasite that turned them into a different species, and that shunting is how they add diversity to their excessively inbred bloodlines]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The numerous races/tribes that inhabit the world are all but explicitly stated to be various offshoots of humanity that have evolved into new subspecies. There's [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces a lot of variety]]; they range from normal humans, [[RubberForeheadAliens human but with small deformities]] (third eyes, unusually long limbs, vestigial wings, etc.), to [[BeastMan animalistic]] [[FishPeople people]], [[OurGiantsAreDifferent giants]], and {{Lilliputians}} who bear little resemblance to baseline humanity. They're all apparently still close enough genetically to interbreed with each other, judging by the fact that we see multiple types of hybrid. In something of an inversion, the Minks don't see themselves as a separate species or subspecies, they view ''[[HumansThroughAlienEyes humans]]'' as one type of Mink (specifically monkey Minks with less hair).

* In ''{{Webcomic/Aurora|2019}}'', some human populations have been influenced by the [[ElementalPowers elements]] over the generations, with their physiology adapting to the elemental energy of whichever habitat they're living in. Some, like those influenced by fire or lightning, are rather similar to regular humans with a few unique physical traits and abilities that aren't immediately obvious. Other subspecies barely look human at all; stone-influenced populations have traits ranging from colorful hair to metal skin, and the water-influenced Sekrai possess fins and live exclusively in the ocean.

* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'': There are several human or humanoid primate species in this world. The main one is Spear, a neanderthal-like human. There is also a group of witches which appear to be a distinct species, much shorter, all appearing aged with black eyes. Heading towards the more ape-like end of the spectrum, we have a species of skinny, white haired humanoids with ape like proportions, a society of highly intelligent ape-men and seeming human-ape hybrids who wield tools.

*** The munavri survived the shattering of Azlant itself and found themselves trapped in the Sightless Sea, a vast ocean deep BeneathTheEarth. They settled a number of floating jade citadels to defend themselves from the many horrific denizens of their new home snd eventually evolved into a distinct species. They largely resemble albino humans, and are telepathic.

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* ''Literature/KonoSuba'' has the Crimson Demon Clan, a literal human subspecies who were founded by one of the "Champions" sent to the world by the goddess Aqua in the distant past. Crimson Demons look and fundamentally are human, but possess two defining traits; every single one of them is [[MageSpecies naturally adept at using magic]], and they are all [[{{Chuunibyou}} flamboyantly melodramatic eccentrics]]. The tabletop roleplaying game adaptation even goes so far as to present Crimson Demon Clan Member as one of the three playable races, with the others being "Reincarnated Otherworlder" and "Native Inhabitant".

* Creator/DCComics:

* In ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', the ancient conspiracy known as the Society of the Black Lamp has deliberately created these over centuries of specialized breeding of humanity. Four species are known to exist; the aquatic Poseidons and night-vision'd Hades are only mentioned in passing, but the other two are relevant to the plot. The Artemis strain are humans that have been bred into twisted, vaguely lupine monsters as a result to create a superior guardian and hunting beast. The Venus strain are uncannily beautiful and naturally docile, due to having been engineered as the ultimate race of sex slaves.
* Creator/MarvelComics:

* In the modern comics of ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'', some Neandertals appear as workers and within the context of the series are considered inferior by the ''Homo sapiens'' of the story (including the main characters).

* ''Fanfic/AmbienceAFleetSymphony'' and ''Fanfic/AmbiencePlatoonMoebiusFour'' depicts [[VideoGame/KanColle shipgirls]] as this. Somewhere between heavy BioAugmentation / GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke and RidiculouslyHumanRobots, indistinguishable from human from the outside yet with superhuman abilities, more than a few of them consider humanity to be Other.

* ''Webcomic/{{REMNANTS}}'': [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] are a sub-species of humans whose aura mutated generations ago. As a result, they're more specialized than ordinary humans.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBridgeMLP'' and the associated Amalgam'Verse, fae are magical sub-species of mundane races, including humans. Sadly, due to the events of the Extinction Hour, magic is greatly degraded and only a few are left.

* In Creator/CordwainerSmith's ''Literature/TheInstrumentalityOfMankind'', to survive on alien worlds, some humans have been so modified that they look more alien than human. {{Inverted|Trope}} with the Underpeople, who are animals modified to act and look human.

* Creator/HPLovecraft wrote quite a few stories about humans who have degenerated into savage monsters, though often as a result of [[HalfHumanHybrid cross-species interbreeding]] (as in "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" and "Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth") rather than evolution or deliberate engineering.[[note]]Of course, the fact that such interbreeding is possible at all suggests that species like [[FishPeople the Deep Ones]] are themselves a subspecies of humanity.[[/note]] The clearest examples come from "Literature/TheRatsInTheWalls", which contains a reference to [[FormerlySapientSpecies "human pigs"]] who were bred underground by medieval cultists as [[ImAHumanitarian food stock]], and "Literature/TheLurkingFear", in which a bygone aristocratic family becomes a clan of [[TheMorlocks subterranean, carnivorous, apelike humans]] after [[InbredAndEvil generations of inbreeding]].

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Nartec are a race of [[FishPeople amphibious humanoids with gills, blue skin and webbed hands]] who inhabit a city beneath the ocean. They are descended from humans who lived in a city that sank beneath the waves, and over time adapted to their new home -- a process sped along by the fact that the glowing rocks they use to light up their city are highly radioactive. Unfortunately, the same radioactivity has cursed them with a host of genetic illnesses and resulting short lifespans, resulting in most Nartec being horribly frail or dying young, and the Nartec as a whole being headed for extinction -- something they try to prevent by harvesting fresh DNA from baseline humans, with whom they're still compatible.

* The [[ContemporaryCaveman troglydytes]] from ''Film/BoneTomahawk'' are inbred to such an extent that they qualify as a separate species, if they were ever human in the first place.