BRANCHING HUMANITY

Homo sapiens
Humanity will reach a natural evolutionary dead end within two to four generations.
(Though humans will still outnumber mutants for some time, the asymmetrical strength of the latter will result in a shift in dominance—see: The "100 sheep, 10 wolves" argument.)

Homo superior
Mutantdom is the natural evolutionary successor to humanity.

Homo novissima
Post-humanity is a manufac­tured branch of humanity not restricted by normal evolu­tionary constraints.
(The problem with a technolo­gy-based post-evolutionary state is the inevitable—but naturally occuring—paradigm loop between organic and technological constructs. A machine leap makes a post-human leap possible, and a post-human leap makes a machine leap possible—on and on until one of these two eventually reaches an end state.)

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