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Homo sapiens
- chasing 10y agoMy home is infested with humans. They're loud, they're smelly, and they leave the toilet seats up.
- throwanem 10y agoYeah, you've got to watch out for that. Once they reproduce, it can take decades to clear them out.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoSurely the police can take them away after just 18 years?
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- russdill 10y agoHumans have the widest distribution of any terrestrial mammal species, inhabiting every continent on earth (although there are no permanent settlements on Antarctica). A small group of humans has been introduced to space, where they inhabit the International Space Station.
- mrfusion 10y agoWouldn't mice be everywhere humans are? Dogs too? Except the iss of course.
- douche 10y agoI don't remember hearing that James Cameron had any stowaway rats on the Deepsea Challenger, so the bottom of the Marianas Trench is at least one other place humans have been exclusively.
- akavi 10y agoAre there dogs at the antarctic research stations?
- undersuit 10y agoNot anymore, apparently the dogs were attacking the penguins.
- lazyant 10y agothere are permanent settlements in Antartica (for some definition of "permanent")
- ekianjo 10y ago> currently no major threat to humans Id say global nuclear war is a very real and very tangible threat to humans and many other species around.
- hacker42 10y agoAlso runaway climate change, super bugs, super viruses, grey goo, AI, GRBs, supervolcanoes…
- johnchristopher 10y ago> There are currently no major threats to humans, although some subpopulations may be experiencing localized declines as a result of disease, drought, war, natural disasters, and other factors.
- cel1ne 10y agoI think, due to climate change, in the next 50 years we'll see large subpopulations (millions) experiencing decline and migration by way of disease, war, natural disaster etc.
- icebraining 10y agoThis is an easy prediction, since it's already true; dozens of millions of people are already displaced by war every year: http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2015/6/558193896/worldwide-displacement-hits-all-time-high-war-persecution-increase.html http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2015/6/558193896/worldwide-...
- Camillo 10y agoFull Account -> Classifications -> Uses: Food - human Local : check Sport hunting/specimen collecting Local : check D:
- NoGravitas 10y agoI found this concerning as well.
- LeifCarrotson 10y agoHabitats - All "Suitable" except: 0. Root -> 6. Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks) Suitability: Marginal
- musha68k 10y agoI didn't know about the Red List, just signed up with them - thanks for sharing!
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- galori 10y agophew
- adamnemecek 10y agoSounds like an invasive species.
- deepnet 10y agoGeorgina Mace, the redlist author, was just on BBC radio's Life Scientific "Georgina Mace has devoted her Life Scientific to trying to limit the damage to our planet's bio-diversity from this alarming loss. For ten years she worked on the Red List of Threatened Species, developing a robust set of scientific criteria for assessing the threat of extinction facing every species on the planet. When the list was first published, she expected resistance from big business; but not the vicious negative reaction she received from many wildlife NGOS. Her careful quantitative analysis revealed that charismatic animals, like the panda and the polar bear, are not necessarily the most at risk." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jys1h http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jys1h
- flagkilled 10y agoGiven the conventional definition of species, it would seem that any two distinct populations capable of producing fertile offspring effectively constitute the same species. Yet despite canids being in abundance, conservationists see nothing wrong with classifying certain threatened populations of canid as distinct "species" and campaigning for their preservation, such as the North American Red Wolf: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/3747/0 http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/3747/0 This is despite unrestricted fertility existing between it and the common dog, as well as coyotes and other "species" of wolf. If anyone dared to make a similar argument about the necessity of preserving certain threatened populations of homo sapiens from extinction through mass migration and the subsequent dispossession and despoiling of their native habits, as is arguably slowly happening to native Europeans, the charge of racism would swiftly follow, and the distinctness or perhaps even the very existence of those populations would be denied (the "social construct" theory). Is this not hypocritical?
- JetSpiegel 10y agoDisappointed by the 'Image and External Links' tab, I was expecting porn.
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- known 10y agoJust drop a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon in Antarctic ice sheets. You'll drown the world. http://qz.com/651615/a-melting-antartica-might-make-the-seas-rise-by-much-much-more-than-we-thought/ http://qz.com/651615/a-melting-antartica-might-make-the-seas...
- sevenless 10y agoIn the interests of conserving biodiversity, should it not also list the different subspecies/ethnic groups, and report on their threatened status in their native habitats?
- xenophonf 10y agoTechnically, all living humans are of a single subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.
- sevenless 10y agoI suspect that if we studied and classified humans in the same way we studied a species of bird or beetle, we'd have no trouble identifying tens of different subspecies based on fairly distinct phenotypes and geographic distributions.
- xenophonf 10y agoI'm sure a proper taxonomist would be able to speak more authoritatively, but I rather doubt it. Subspecies tend not to interbreed for whatever reason, whether geographic isolation, sexual selection, or other factors, whereas humans rather enthusiastically behave in the opposite fashion. I don't think one could convincingly argue that humans are geographically isolated, either. You might be able to make an argument that human races are akin to pet breeds, but my understanding is that zoologists don't really consider pet breeds as subspecies.
- jimmyk 10y ago>whereas humans rather enthusiastically behave in the opposite fashion. What are the worldwide rates of interracial marriage? I see in the US (a country where the majority race makes up about 60% of the population) that it's now around 10% for new marriages, and has historically been much much lower. If your statement were true, wouldn't we expect to see much higher rates of interracial marriage than 10% in the US? Wouldn't we expect that the historical rate was also much higher?
- Symmetry 10y agoI was sort of hoping they'd also have some of the other, extinct, species of humans. But a search for neanderthalis didn't turn up anything.
- Azy8BsKXVko 10y agoI love how this and the Wikipedia article have such neutral, scientific tones. I understand why, but it makes it sound like an alien wrote it, and it's amusing.
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- themgt 10y ago> Two countries, China and India, hold approximately one-third of the entire human population alone, with 1,318 million and 1,312 million people, respectively. The United States of America is third with 302 million. This sort of "breaks the fourth wall" for me, using national boundaries defined by human culture/civilization in a biological definition of humans.