Humans

The humans of the 25th century are not quite like the humans of the 21st century. Primarily many humans today have been exposed to new and different types of radiation that have been bouncing and pinging off the Earth's atmosphere for billions of years. This new radiation, originally called Silva radiation as its existence was discovered by Dr. Sofia Silva during her space flight to Alpha Centauri where she would spend the rest of her life. This Silva radiation led to new growths on the human brain on a small microscopic scale that was only discovered about 30 years later when the first generation in Alpha Centauri started producing fire and moving objects using only their minds. Not everyone who was discovered to have these growths survived initially as the human skull was not equipped to contain a brain that would grow a single millimeter in size. A new hormone was added to baby formula when these mutations were discovered to cause the head to grow one millimeter bigger than it otherwise would have. On a normal human this wouldn't have much of an effect but for the psionically gifted this turned their life of weekly or daily migraines into a normal life with brain magic coursing through their skulls.

Basic Information

Anatomy

On average human males have grown to stand around 5 ft. 9 in. or 1.75 meters and human females have grown to stand around 5 ft. 3 in. and 158.2 meters. They often have differing skin tones, but typically humans have two arms, two legs, two eyes, ten fingers, and ten toes.

Genetics and Reproduction

At birth humans have a one half of a binary set of reproductive organs with males often having the role of fertilizing the eggs carried by the females of the species. From there humans go through a gestation period of, on average, nine months. Then a baby is born from a mixture of DNA codes given to them by both of that baby's parents and one half of the binary reproductive organs.

Growth Rate & Stages

While its argued that many of human growth stages are societal constructs, a belief supported by most of human history before the 20th century, there are agreed upon growth stages for human development. Baby, 0-2 years old, marked by an inability to care for one self, mobilize oneself, or communicate with others effectively, it is when a human is at their most vulnerable. Toddler 1-3 years old, this is when a human being has learned how to walk and communicate effectively with those around them and start developing a more independent mindset. Child 4-12 years old, this is the time when humans learn most of their social skills that they will carry with them through social life and is where the end of the old world's ideas of human development before adulthood would often end. Teenager, 13-18 years old is a 20th century invention where the idea of childhood had been expanded in a number of years and this time is often marked in humans exploring the society around them to find out how they can or will fit into the society around them. Adulthood, 18 years and until death, these are the years where most humans will spend the majority of their lives working and or participating in the society around them.

Ecology and Habitats

Many scientists believe that humans evolved somewhere on the continent of Africa but through a mixture of chance, luck, or divine will, humans have been able to find themselves living and thriving across the six of the seven continents on Earth and have managed to find a number of environments on alien worlds to be friendly to their survival necessities and as a result, have not needed to change the ecosystems of most planets they will later colonize.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Humans are omnivores and are able to eat just about anything from meat to plants. Humans are also highly adaptable thanks to their ability use tools and their access to advanced technology they are able to adapt to any natural environment or if needed in the case of some planets, construct artificial habitats capable of housing and providing for the needs of human colonists.

Additional Information

Social Structure

The social structure of humanity is, to say the least, complicated and something considered to still be working out. In a "natural" view, it is believed that humans evolved to follow the biggest, the strongest, and the smartest lending to the creation of hierarchal structures that existed through most of human history. However as technology advanced the gap between physically strongest and some random kid playing with their parent's gun shrank in terms of physical and lethal threat to one's wellbeing, so too did human society do away with the need for physical strength in terms of leadership leading to an age where the only thing that mattered was a person's intelligence and charisma. This led to rise of new ideas and ideologies about how humanity could improve or restructure society. Fights over how this can be achieved and what should be achieved rage to this day.

Domestication

Some scholars believe that humanity domesticated itself due to human beings being inherently social animals which would lead to us shunning or exiling those who broke our customs which could be seen as a parallel to how humans shun or exile animals that are too violent or aggressive when it comes to normal everyday domestication of other species like the dog.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Humans are often assigned five basic senses that have been agreed upon by scientists among the species, though there are debates that there are likely more within the scientific community up to thirty-three senses in fact and that was before the discovery of Silva radiation.

Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms

Dogs and Cats as well as any livestock can be considered a symbiotic or parasitic relationship and often both kinds of relationships can be looked at with just about any relationship between a human and an animal depending on one's point of view.

Civilization and Culture

Major Organizations

The Human Colonization Bureau: An organization dedicated to planning out and surveying new colonies and worlds.
The Ministry of Alien Relations: The organization that developed first contact protocols and has a history of working with and understanding other alien species and are also in charge of diplomatic relations between humans and aliens.
The Coalition of Colonial Combat Forces: An organization dedicated to the defense of humanity's colonies against Alien threats in case the Ministry of Alien Relations fails in its task to come to reasonable agreements with alien forces.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

English, Mandarin, German, Hausa, and Hindi are the most commonly spoken languages of the colonist humans who travelled into space.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Humans and the Grups, typically humans are able to get along with Grups as a species pretty well, although humans are still often weirded out by the Grups communal mind that they share between Cluster Mates. Some psionic humans have grown envious of the Grups shared mind however with some psionic humans attempting similar ideas amongst their own species.
Humans and the Skurrah, are somewhat hostile, but that is the nature of the Skurrah who have a very isolationist mind set in an environment where they are not the masters of their fate any longer. This difference in mindset has led to many small conflicts between Skurrah societies and human civilization with some planetary governments declaring them an invasive species and only the larger Human Colonization Bureau preventing a species wide genocide on those planets.

Scientific Name

Homo Sapiens & Homo Cerebrum

Origin/Ancestry

Earth & Alpha Centauri

Lifespan

100 years.

Average Height

Male : 5 ft. 9 in. or 1.75
Female: 5 ft. 3 in. and 158.2 meters.

Average Weight

Male: 140 pounds or 64 kilograms
Female: 110 pounds or 50 kilograms

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Natural human skin color exists on a spectrum of the color brown from lighter shades called as white to darker shades called black.