Humans
Humans are the native sapient inhabitants of Earth. Most races of the Nine Realms refer to humans as Mortals, while the various extraterrestrial cultures living beyond the Realms use the term Terrans, or sometimes Earthers.
They are one of the species (along with the Skrull, Centaurians, Kymellians, and Badoon) who were subjected to Kree Primagen experiments, resulting in the creating of a super-powered subspecies, the Inhumans.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Humans are bipedal humanoids, similar in appearance to the Kree.
Humans have proportionately shorter palates and smaller teeth than other primates. However they share with other primates a vestigial tail, flexible shoulder joints, grasping fingers and opposable thumbs. While humans have a density of hair follicles comparable to other apes, it is predominately so short and wispy as to be practically invisible. While there is genetic variation, many humans have little visible hair except on their heads.
Humans have a far faster and more accurate throw than other primates. Humans are also among the best long-distance runners on Earth, but slower over short distances.
Humans are sexually dimorphic, although intersex people make up between 0.5% to 1.7% of the population.
Growth Rate & Stages
The average gestation period is 38 weeks, but a normal pregnancy can vary by up to 37 days, and with proper care their young are often able to survive an early labour if one naturally occurs or needs to be induced for medical reasons. Compared with other species, human childbirth is dangerous, with a much higher risk of complications and death due to the relatively large size of infants' heads. In developed countries, infants are typically 7–9 lb in weight and 19–21 inches in height at birth.
In most human cultures, both the mother and father care for offspring, and although mothers usually have a strong emotional bond with infants from birth, an identical bond has been shown to develop in any adult caring for a child.
Humans continue to grow for some years, typically reaching sexual maturity at 15 to 17 years of age. The human life span has been split into various stages ranging from three to twelve. Common stages include infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The lengths of these stages have varied across cultures and time periods. Humans are a grandmother species, with females becoming infertile decades before the end of their lives.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material. Human groups have successgfully adopted a range of diets from purely vegan to primarily carnivorous though in some cases, dietary restrictions in humans can lead to deficiency diseases, and a more varied diet is generally accepted to be the nutritional ideal.
In general, humans can survive for up to eight weeks without food, depending on stored body fat. Survival without water is usually limited to three or four days, with a maximum of one week.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Humans are highly social beings and tend to live in large complex social groups, although in recent times the trend in Europe and North America among others has been for small family groups of one or two adults and their offspring to live together sepperate from any wider familial or social group.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Due to lack of faster than light travel, humans are found almost exclusively on their home planet.
Humans can be found living in all but the most extreme climates on Earth, including in both hot and cold deserts.
Average Intelligence
Due to their lack of interstellar travel, the relative intelligence of humans has been hard to assess. The Kree noted them as being similar in intelligence to the Skrull. Asgardians consider them to be of similar intelligence to themselves, although hampered in their learning by their short lifespans.
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
While they have no naturally occuring macrogamism symbiotes, humans have deliberately cultivated mutually beneficial relationships with a number of other native species, including Canis Lupus and Felix Catus.
Civilization and Culture
Major Organizations
Human cultures are typically organised into nations, which may be further subdivided into tribes or regional groupings. The largest nation on earth by landmass is Russia, although China has the highest population.
Gender Ideals
A majority of human cultures divide gender along biological sexual grounds, although many cultures have a third (or more) recognised gender, and individuals who fall within the umbrella of non-binary may have no gender, or move between different genders. Individals who's gender does not match their biological sex make up an estimated 0.3% of the population, although historic oppression or cultural variance make estimating figures inexact.
Relationship Ideals
Humans experience romantic and sexual attraction, and long-term partnership with another individual to whom one experiences romantic and sexual attraction is the ideal in many cutures, although some indivuals experience only one type of attraction, no attraction, or many find the individuals they are romantically and sexually attracted to are different. Polygamy, polyarmory, or marriages based on social and cultural rules rather than attraction are also common.
In binary-gendered individuals, attraction to members of the other main gender grouping (i.e. women being attracted to men) is more common than other kinds, although some have theorised that bisexuality (attraction to two or more genders) is actually the norm and the prevelance of heterosexuality is the result of cultural enforcement.
Close familial relationships are valued, and humans will form familial-like bonds with friends, and in some cases may consider their friends to be their true family.
Average Technological Level
Humans are a stage 1 civilisation and do not have access to faster than light travel.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
There are approximately six thousand different languages currently in use, including sign languages, and many thousands more that are extinct. Most, but not all, extant languages also have a writing system, although writing systems may be shared between many different languages depending on the history of a region.
History
According to humans, they evolved naturally from native primates beginning several million years ago, with Homo Sapiens first appearing around 300,000 years ago.
However, according the Kree they are, at least in part, an engineered species, created by the hypothesised advanced Progenitor race. This is theorised due to their close resemblence to a number of other species, such as the Kree themselves, the Skrull, the Zehoberei, the Kylosians, and the Centaurians.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Among those few individuals who have left Sol, attraction to alien species seems to occur at a much higher rate than in other species, and it is believed they may be capable of interbreeding with many species.
Home Galaxy
Milky Way
Home System
Sol
Milky Way
Home System
Sol
Genetic Descendants
Scientific Name
Homo Sapiens
Origin/Ancestry
Primate
Lifespan
Averages between 50 and 85 years depending on sex, genetics, wealth and lifestyle
Average Height
Male: 5'7" | Females: 5'3". Shrinkage may begin in middle age, only only by a few inches.
Average Weight
Males: 77 kg I Female: 59 kg. Can vary widely depending on genetics, location, diet, and lifestyle.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Hair ranges in color from pale yellow to black. Hair may loose pigment with age, fading to grey or white.
Skin color ranges from darkest brown to lightest peach. Variation is clinal, with darker skin found primarily in the hottest regions.
Skin color ranges from darkest brown to lightest peach. Variation is clinal, with darker skin found primarily in the hottest regions.
Geographic Distribution
Related Ethnicities