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Subhuman means "less than human". It may refer to:
Biology
edit- Any of the extinct members of the clade Hominina other than Homo or alternatively just Homo sapiens sapiens
Music
editBands and labels
edit- Subhumans (British band), a British punk rock band
- Subhumans (Canadian band), a Canadian punk rock band
- SubHuman : Human Imprint, an American record label founded by Dieselboy and Steve Gordon
Albums
edit- SubHuman, a 2007 album by Recoil
Songs
edit- "Subhuman" (song), a song by Garbage
- "Subhuman/Something Came Over Me", a song by Throbbing Gristle
- "Subhuman", a song by Blue Öyster Cult from the album Secret Treaties
- "Subhuman", a song by The Pillows from the album Another Morning, Another Pillows
Other uses
edit- Dehumanization, the denial of full humanness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it
- Humanoid, a non-human creature or being with human form or characteristics
- Infrahumanisation, the tacitly held belief that one's ingroup is more human than an outgroup, which is less human
- Last man, the antithesis to the Übermensch in Nietzschean philosophy
- A measure of progress in artificial intelligence, denoting worse performance than most humans
- Second-class citizen, a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there
- Slave, someone forbidden to quit their service for another person and is treated as property
- Untermensch, a term for an "inferior human being" which was originally used by early eugenicists and Nazi racial theorists