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'''Human-ish''' was a term used to unfavourably describe people who were genetically close to [[human]]s. Like the [[Tylerkind]], who had genetically adapted to life on the mostly-aquatic [[Tyler's Folly]], human-ish people had slightly different, and undesirable, physiologies from the human baseline. According to [[Kommander]] [[Ernst Katastrophen]] and others, the word '''subhuman''' was a synonym. | '''Human-ish''' was one of the designations used for some kinds of [[posthuman]]s. | ||
In the [[26th century]], it was a term used to unfavourably describe people who were genetically close to [[human]]s. Like the [[Tylerkind]], who had genetically adapted to life on the mostly-aquatic [[Tyler's Folly]], human-ish people had slightly different, and supposedly undesirable, physiologies from the human baseline. According to [[Kommander]] [[Ernst Katastrophen]] and others, the word '''subhuman''' was a synonym. | |||
Thus, unlike the term ''[[humanoid]]'', ''human-ish'' was flatly derogatory. Indeed, the measurement of "human-ish-ness" was used in at least the [[26th century]] as a means of racial suppression by the [[SSSSSSS]]. In the middle of the century, legislation by the name of the [[First Demographic Charter of 2537]] arose which gave both power and definition to the measurement of a person's level of humanity. [[Bernice Summerfield]] found the SSSSSSS' efforts at genetic management on Tyler's Folly both laughable and worthy of her opposition. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Down (novel)|Down]]'') | Thus, unlike the term ''[[humanoid]]'', ''human-ish'' was flatly derogatory. Indeed, the measurement of "human-ish-ness" was used in at least the [[26th century]] as a means of racial suppression by the [[SSSSSSS]]. In the middle of the century, legislation by the name of the [[First Demographic Charter of 2537]] arose which gave both power and definition to the measurement of a person's level of humanity. [[Bernice Summerfield]] found the SSSSSSS' efforts at genetic management on Tyler's Folly both laughable and worthy of her opposition. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Down (novel)|Down]]'') | ||
In the year [[5,000,000,000]], | In contrast, in the year [[5,000,000,000]], [[Lady Cassandra]] cited "human-ish" among a list of names [[posthuman]]s of various kinds used for themselves, alongside [[New human (New Earth)|new humans]], [[proto-human]]s and [[digi-human]]s. She seemed to find the term ridiculous as an identification, and, given her prejudice against all "impure" humans, dismissed all those identifiers, whispering that she preferred to refer to all of them as "[[mongrel]]s". ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The End of the World (TV story)}} | ||
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