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{{Status|Canon}}
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{{Species infobox
|name=Human
|image=[[File:FUD Orenski Lasky Silva color adjust.jpg|300px]]
|latin=''Homo sapiens''<ref name="wp hum">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/humans ''Halo Waypoint'': Humans]</ref>
|classification=Mammal
|subspecies=
|diet=Omnivorous
|height=152.4–182.9 cm (5–6 ft){{Ref/Reuse|wp hum}}
|weight=61.2–90.7 kg (135–200 lb){{Ref/Reuse|wp hum}}
|distinctions=
|lifespan=80–90 years{{Ref/Reuse|wp hum}}
|homeworld=[[Earth]]{{Ref/Reuse|wp hum}}
|techlevel=Tier 3{{Ref/Reuse|wp hum}}<ref name="bestiarum">''[[Halo 3]]'', [[Bestiarum]]</ref>
|notable-person=<small>[[John-117]], [[Catherine Halsey]], [[Preston Cole]], [[Terrence Hood]], [[Forthencho]], [[Robert Watts]]</small>
|othernames=*By the [[Forerunner]]s:
**[[Reclaimer]]s
*By [[Erde-Tyrene civilization|ancient humans]]:
**Ha''manush''
*By the [[Sangheili]]:
**Dohmoh'Eenngahnehnn
**[[Nishum]]
*By the [[Kig-Yar]]:
**Flat-face
|languages=*[[English]]
*[[Human languages|Other languages]]
}}
{{Series/Species/Human}}
'''Humans''', taxonomically referred to as '''''Homo sapiens''''' ([[Latin]] for "wise man") and known as '''ha''manune''''' (plural '''ha''manush''''') in the Forerunner era,<ref name="rebirth">''Halo: Silentium'', [[Rebirth|Rebirth Narrative]]</ref> are a [[sentience|sentient]] species native to [[Earth]]. A part of the [[Wikipedia:Primate|primate family]], they are the only extant species of a formerly diverse [[Wikipedia:Homo|genus]] of multiple species once classified as human. Members of the species, like some [[Covenant]] species, are four-limbed and bipedal, which enables them to walk upright on two legs and use their arms and hands (including opposable thumbs) to hold and manipulate objects such as tools.

Over [[107,445 BCE|110,000 years ago]], ancient humanity ('''archeohomina''') had achieved a [[Prehistoric human civilization|thriving interstellar civilization]] nearly on par with the [[Forerunner]]s, although their catastrophic defeat in the [[human-Forerunner wars]] would see them reduced to [[Erde-Tyrene civilization|a preindustrial state]] as hunter-gatherer tribes, forced to achieve technological sophistication again.<ref name="cryptum">''Halo: Cryptum'', Chapter ??</ref> Thanks to the efforts of the Forerunner known as the [[Librarian]], however, humans were later elevated to the role of [[Reclaimer]]s, intended to inherit the [[Mantle]] the Forerunners used to hold. Humanity would not begin to rise from the confines of their homeworld until nearly 100,000 years later, with the re-invention of space travel in the mid-20th century and the beginning of space colonization in the latter half of the 21st century. Following a series of [[Interplanetary War|violent conflicts]] across the [[Sol system]], contemporary humanity at large was brought under a single banner with the establishment of the [[Unified Earth Government]] in [[2170]]. Over a century later, the invention of the [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] heralded a new golden age for humanity: no longer confined to their home system, humans [[human colonies|spread across]] the neighbouring stars.<ref name="xbox">[http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo/storyline.htm ''Xbox.com:'' Halo Storyline] (Defunct, Copy on [http://halo.bungie.org/misc/mstimeline2.html HBO Forums], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080424150226/www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo/storyline.htm Wayback Machine], and [[Archive:Xbox.com/Halo/Timeline|Halopedia]])</ref>

At the end of the 25th century, this age of flourish was coming to an end, and the rising economic and political tensions across the colonies eventually culminated in a series of civil conflicts collectively known as the [[Insurrection]]. The war claimed millions of lives over the next three decades, but a far more dire threat loomed. In [[2525]], a theocratic alien hegemony known as the [[Covenant]] invaded the colony world of [[Harvest]], beginning the apocalyptic [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Reuse|xbox}} For nearly three decades, humanity, under the emergency military governance of the [[United Nations Space Command]], was pushed back by the relentless Covenant war machine, until the tide turned in [[2552]]. With humanity teetering on the brink of extinction, the discovery of a Forerunner artifact known as [[Installation 04|Halo]] set in motion a course of events which would lead to the [[Great Schism|fragmentation]] and eventual destruction of the Covenant.<ref name="halo3">'''Halo 3'''</ref>

Following the end of the war, humanity began to take on a more active role in the galactic community formed by the Covenant's dissolution, with new technological developments sped up by the discovery of Forerunner relics. However, these developments have not yet elevated them to the [[Technological Achievement Tiers|Tier 2 of technological advancement]] held by the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|wp hum}} Despite the defeat of the Covenant, humanity engaged in [[Post-Covenant War conflicts|smaller conflicts]] during the post-war years. In addition to threats from within in the form of renewed dissidence across the colonies, the UNSC was involved in hostilities with new [[Covenant remnants|Covenant factions]], some of which allowed humans to join, and other hostilites with the [[Ur-Didact]]'s reawakened Forerunner [[Promethean]] constructs which would later come under the command of the [[Created]].<ref name="halo4">'''Halo 4'''</ref>