post-humanadj.n.

1916 M. Parmelee Poverty & Social Progress xxi. 319 An animal no longer human, or for that matter mammalian, in its character... But even if such a post-human animal did come into existence, it is difficult to believe that it could carry on the necessary economic activities without using a certain amount of formal organization.

1934 Times 20 Nov. 15/4 Here is no biological speculation on the means of getting born of oviparous parentage, like the miserable post-human young in the last act of Back to Methuselah.

1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. iii. 374 If Homo sapiens fails in his promise, then I do not care whether it is his degenerate descendants, post-human monsters..or whether it is totalitarian ants or rats or mice or what not which come next in the succession.

1995 D. Coupland Microserfs (1996) v. 241 They want to become ‘posthuman’—to make their bodies like the Bionic Woman's and the Six Million Dollar Man's—to go to the next level of bodyhood.

1944 J. Kerouac Let. Oct. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 81 Hating himself as he does, hating his ‘humankindness’, he seeks new vision, a post-human post-intelligence.

1950 J. Berryman Stephen Crane iii. 257 It affects one as pure symbol, senseless and ghastly, like one of Goya's last etchings, and has the posthuman quality of certain late art by other masters.

1981 Time (Nexis) 25 May 86 His humor, his presence, his act seem not only post-funny but posthuman.

1998 K. Eshun More Brilliant than Sun v. 68 Moving into the possibility space of hyperrhythm, posthuman rhythm that's impossible to play, impossible to hear in a history of causation.

1985 B. Sterling Schismatrix 26 I've met many borderline posthumans in my day, but never one of you.

1999 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 120 The posthuman is not just some Edward Scissorhands amalgamation of gizmos and flesh.

2002 A. M. Steele in Asimov's Sci. Fiction May 70 A posthuman who had once been flesh and blood until he'd relinquished his humanity to have his mind downloaded into cyborg form, becoming an immortal intellect.