History Main / HumanSubspecies

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* ''CthulhuTech'': The Nazzadi
* ''{{Exalted}}'': Several sub-species of humans with environmental adaptation, like the winged Air People, were created during the First Age.
* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Space Marines start out as regular humans, but they are given so many genetic modifications they become a separate species. The Squats, Ratlings, Orgyns, and Beastmen are humans who adapted to their various environments.
* ''{{Traveller}}'': The Zhodani at least they almost never intermarry. They are the same as other humans except for the Psi thing which is taken very far indeed. There are other human subspecies. Vilani probably don't count as the difference between them and Terrans is cultural and ideological and they often intermarry. Vilani are however taller and live longer.
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 Edition features several Human subraces in various supplements, including Azurins, Illumians, and Neanderthals.
* in ''{{Shadowrun}}'', metahumans (elves, dwarves, orks, and trolls) are classified as subspecies of humanity. Each of them, in turn, has several subspecies of their own, as detailed in ''The Shadowrun Companion''.

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* ''{{Exosquad}}'': The Neosapiens.

* It's still being debated over whether Neanderthals were capable of interbreeding with ''Homo sapiens sapiens'' or not. If they were they were a subspecies, if not then a separate species.

* A number of [[ScienceMarchesOn now-discredited]] racial theories from the late 19th/early 20th century posited that the different "races" (white, black, Indian, etc.) were actually different species or subspecies of humanity. In case you haven't guessed, there's [[UnfortunateImplications a pretty good reason]] why [[DeaderThanDisco nobody (save for the far-right fringe) believes those theories anymore]].

* Subverted in the Macross series, human, Zentraedi and indeed most sentient races shown in the series are a subspecies/descendants of the [[Precursors Protoculture]]. Humans and Zentraedi are so genetically similar that they're treated more like different races then a distinct subspecies.

* In the ''HonorHarrington'' universe, there are a wide variety of distinctly different groups of humans (though all still identifiably human), generally due to genetic engineerings. These include {{SuperSoldier}}s and their descendants, slaves engineered for particular traits, {{Heavy Worlder}}s of varying degrees, an entire planete populated by albinos (an unintended trait due to their other genetic tweaks), and other, more subtle differences. The central protagonist of the series is herself genetically tweaked to be a sort of mild HeavyWorlder and could also be considered a SuperSoldier because of it.

* ''{{Andromeda}}'': The Nietzscheans (Homo Sapiens Invictus), who have been modified enough to be considered a subspecies. Along with being taller, faster, and smarter, they can breathe chlorine and have bone blade growing from their arms.
** Other genetically engineered humans are also mentioned. [[TheCaptain Hunt]]'s mother, for example, was a [[{{Heavyworlder}} human engineered to live on high-gravity worlds]]. And Beka Valentine had enhanced reflexes inherited from her father. Really the only human on the Andromeda Ascendant who wasn't genetically engineered was Harper (also the only one from Earth). However, their modifications are not as extreme as the Nietzscheans, Hunt and Beka are still considered Homo sapiens sapiens.

* StarTrek: Despite the Federation banning genetic engineering on humans, they did allow a group of scientist to design their idea of Homo superior. With a very active immune system, psychic powers, and looking like young adults when they're only children, they're a ideally perfect human.

* The Ousters in ''Hyperion'' were originally a small group of humans who decided to modify their own bodies to suit foreign environments instead of the other way around. Fast forward several thousand years, and some people don't even consider them human anymore.

** [[spoiler: The Taclofane are the last remnants of humanity, who strike a [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian bargain]] to maintain their life.]]

* ''StarTrek'': A series of books by David Mack reveals origins of the Borg to be humans [[spoiler: crossed with a superpowered Grey (as in the kind of alien) who had transformed her body into catoms (programmable matter which is real), the Grey loses her body then her mind and possesses the humans in an attempt to save herself...what little of herself is left. [[WallBanger Did I mention she and the humans had been tossed billions of years into the past and across space?]]

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'': The Jaffa, modified to be incubators of Goa'uld larvae.

* ''{{Andromeda}}'': The Nietzschians, who have been modified enough they they have bone blades from their arms.
** Other genetically engineered humans are also mentioned. [[TheCaptain Hunt]]'s mother, for example, was a [[{{Heavyworlder}} human engineered to live on high-gravity worlds]].
*** And Beka Valentine had enhanced reflexes inherited from her father. Really the only human on the Andromeda Ascendant who wasn't genetically engineered was Harper (also the only one from Earth).

** Other genetically engineered humans are also mentioned. [[TheCaptain Hunt]]'s mother, for example, was a human engineered to live on high-gravity worlds.

* ''StarTrek'': A series of books by David Mack reveals origins of the Borg to be humans [[spoiler: crossed with a superpowered Grey (as in the kind of alien) who had transformed her body into catoms (programmable matter which is real), the Grey loses her body then her mind and possesses the humans in an attempt to save herself...what little of herself is left. [[WallBanger Did I mention she and the humans had been tossed billions of years into the past and across space?]] SoYeah.]]