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In this time period, Earth was home to numerous sapient species of [[Wikipedia:Homo|human]], [[Wikipedia:Hominidae|hominid]], [[Wikipedia:Ape|hominoid]], and [[Wikipedia:Simian|anthropoid]], all of whom were understood, or regarded themselves, as being part of a single "People".<ref name="p169">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 169''</ref> The multitude of species among the human genus itself was generated rather rapidly, most of them over the course of only a thousand years, after the humans' forced devolution at the hands of the Forerunners. There were more than twenty species regarded as human,<ref name="c25">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 25-26''</ref> with over 120 different subtypes known.<ref name="p188"/> These various forms represented species and subspecies both new and ones that had once existed but were suppressed over the course of the devolution.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 48''</ref> | In this time period, Earth was home to numerous sapient species of [[Wikipedia:Homo|human]], [[Wikipedia:Hominidae|hominid]], [[Wikipedia:Ape|hominoid]], and [[Wikipedia:Simian|anthropoid]], all of whom were understood, or regarded themselves, as being part of a single "People".<ref name="p169">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 169''</ref> The multitude of species among the human genus itself was generated rather rapidly, most of them over the course of only a thousand years, after the humans' forced devolution at the hands of the Forerunners. There were more than twenty species regarded as human,<ref name="c25">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 25-26''</ref> with over 120 different subtypes known.<ref name="p188"/> These various forms represented species and subspecies both new and ones that had once existed but were suppressed over the course of the devolution.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 48''</ref> While given human species had stayed remarkably similar to their ancestral forms during their regression and re-evolution in superficial terms,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 129''</ref> humans never fully recovered to the level of their ancient ancestors in terms of size, strength and intelligence.<ref name="wp hum">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/humans '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Humans'']</ref> This meddling was noted to have considerably distorted Earth's natural fossil records,<ref name="c127">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 127''</ref> and made it difficult to determine the exact lineage for a particular human species.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 242''</ref> | ||
Some, although not all, of these species were saved in the Lifeworkers' [[Conservation Measure]] and made it to [[Installation 00]] for preservation when the [[Halo Array]] was fired. In the endgame of the Flood war, the Librarian estimated that only four or five human species remained intact, and due to the scarcity of healthy and intact specimens the recovery of all of the genetic composites the Lifeworkers had stored may be impossible.<ref name="s317"/> | Some, although not all, of these species were saved in the Lifeworkers' [[Conservation Measure]] and made it to [[Installation 00]] for preservation when the [[Halo Array]] was fired. In the endgame of the Flood war, the Librarian estimated that only four or five human species remained intact, and due to the scarcity of healthy and intact specimens the recovery of all of the genetic composites the Lifeworkers had stored may be impossible.<ref name="s317"/> | ||
