'My,' Xoxarle said, 'you humans never cease to surprise me.'

Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream... or truly live.

Many have assumed that humans ceased to evolve in the distant past, perhaps when people first learned to protect themselves against cold, famine and other harsh agents of natural selection.

As a result, ultra-intelligent machines become capable of upgrading themselves, humans cease to be the primary players, and the future becomes unknowable.

This excess grain was the basis of specialization; as some humans ceased laboring for food, they became metal-smiths, shipwrights, soldiers, philosophers.

If humans ceased wholly from preying upon each other, could they continue to exist?

We come into this season knowing how we want it to make us feel, and we are usually disappointed because humans never cease to be human.

"By destroying your leader Serena Butler, the evermind has calculated that humans will realize defeat and cease this Jihad."

And we knew that humans ceased to live on Earth at the time of the emigration that settled Harmony and, no doubt, other worlds as well.

The humans and the elf ceased their bickering, turned, and looked at him.