Humans

Humans are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina. They are characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; high manual dexterity and heavy tool use compared to other animals; open-ended and complex language use compared to other animal communications; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies. Aside from the posture, locomotion, and tool-use, they share most of these qualities with dragons.
The spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a profound impact on large areas of the environment and millions of native species worldwide. Advantages that explain this evolutionary success include a relatively larger brain with a particularly well-developed neocortex, prefrontal cortex and temporal lobes, which enable high levels of abstract reasoning, language, problem solving, sociality, and culture through social learning. Humans use tools to a much higher degree than any other animal, even dragons, are the only extant non-dragon species known to build fires and cook their food, and are the only extant species to clothe themselves and create and use numerous other technologies and arts.
With the exception of dragons, humans are uniquely adept at using systems of symbolic communication (such as language and art) for self-expression and the exchange of ideas, and for organizing themselves into purposeful groups. Humans create social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states, with complexity rivaling, and even exceeding, those of dragons. Social interactions between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which together form the basis of human society. Curiosity and the human desire to understand and influence the environment and to explain and manipulate phenomena (or events) has provided the foundation for developing science, philosophy, mythology, religion, anthropology, and numerous other fields of knowledge second of to that of Dragonkind.

Scientific Name

Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Primates; Family: Hominidae; Genus: Homo Species: Sapiens Subspecies: Sapiens

Origin/Ancestry

Caucasian, Asian, African, Native American, Oceanian

Related Myths

• Prophecy of Extinction