H. fossilia

Wouldn’t it be charming if,
Given humans are the first
Culturally ratcheting ape,

Some of your descendants changed
Barely at all from now on,
So that one day human beasts

Counted as living fossils,
Creatures hardly altered since
Their ancestors first evolved?

All this singular, talking
Species talks about these days
Is the scary speed of change,

But that’s culture, dears, not genes,
Not yet at least, you aardvarks.