Humans

Humans, specifically modern humans or Homo sapiens, were a species of great ape that rapidly colonized and radically transformed the Earth during the late Quaternary Period. They were the chief agents of the global change that brought about the Sixth Mass Extinction, with the Anthropocene Epoch being named for them.

History
Several groups of humans evolved in Northern Africa and Southern Europe in the Pleistocene from a single hominin ancestor. As with the sentient salticids that would eventually emerge, humans were powerfully intelligent and capable of changing their environment to fit their needs. Their population steadily grew until the early Anthropocene, when climate change brought about their extinction, along with the extinction of most life on Earth.

Salticids consistently recovered fossilized human remains during paleontological digs, but only were able to identify them and speculate about their role in Earth's history around the 30th century PT.