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Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a St. Croix–born, Harlem-based writer, orator, and activist called "the father of Harlem radicalism" who led socialist and New Negro movements.
HuCow
HuCow, from human + cow, is a kink role and erotica genre in which a submissive plays a dairy cow for a dominant farmer, centered on lactation and milking; used since at least 2012, with 450+ FetLife groups.
Huda Sha'arawi (هدى شعراوي)
Huda Sha'arawi (هدى شعراوي, 1879–1947), born Nur al-Huda Sultan, Egyptian nationalist and feminist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, led the 1919 women's protest, and publicly unveiled at Cairo's train station in 1923.
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton (Huey Percy Newton, 1942–1989) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966, served as Minister of Defense, earned a UC Santa Cruz Ph.D., lived in Cuban exile, and was shot dead in Oakland in 1989.
Hug
A hug is a physical embrace expressing affection, comfort, greeting, celebration, or solidarity. Also called an embrace; studied for cortisol-reducing, oxytocin-mediated effects, greeting norms, and robotic hugging.
Hui people (回族)
The Hui people (回族, Huizu) are a Chinese Muslim ethnic group formed from Arab, Persian, and Central Asian traders, numbering over 10 million and centered in Ningxia.
Human behavior
Human behavior is the range of organism activities in response to internal or external stimuli, studied via behaviorism, social cognitive theory, ecological models, and behavior genetics, and applied in public health policy.
Human bonding
Human bonding is the formation of selective, enduring emotional connections, studied chiefly through Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory, Harlow's primate work, oxytocin research, pair-bond evolution, cross-cultural variation, and health effects of secure versus disrupted bonds.
Human cannibalism
Human cannibalism (anthropophagy) is the eating of human flesh by humans, documented archaeologically from Homo antecessor at Gran Dolina 850,000 years ago through Neanderthal sites like Goyet and Moula-Guercy, and linked to kuru prion disease in Papua New Guinea.
Human capital flight
Human capital flight, or brain drain, is the emigration of skilled professionals such as doctors, engineers, and scientists, typically from lower-wage to higher-wage countries. Related terms include brain gain and brain circulation; it can reduce origin-country growth, offset partly by remittances and return migration.
Human Development
Human development is the continuous change in physiological and psychological functions across the whole lifespan, studied as lifespan developmental psychology and a multidisciplinary perspective, from Tetens (1777) to modern life-span theory and WHO life course health policy.
Human Diversity Foundation
Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), also Human Diversity Foundation LLC, is a private company founded by Emil Kirkegaard in 2022 that funds scientific racism research and media such as Aporia, funded by $1.3 million from Andrew Conru.
Human extinction
Human extinction is the end of the human species, studied as existential risk, a term Nick Bostrom coined in 2002. Natural background rate is below 1 in 870,000 per year; anthropogenic risks include nuclear war, AI, and engineered pathogens.
Human female sexuality
Human female sexuality covers women's sexual desire, response, orientation, pleasure, and reproduction. Key distinctions: concealed-estrus debate, circular response model, sociocultural orgasm gap, and the shift from linear Masters-Johnson models.
Human geography
Human geography is one of geography's two major branches, alongside physical geography, studying how people's lives and activities are arranged spatially, with subfields including cultural, economic, political, and urban geography.
Human intelligence
Human intelligence: general mental capacity to learn, reason, and adapt, studied via psychometric theories (Spearman's g, Cattell-Horn Gf-Gc, CHC three-stratum model) and measured by tests from Binet's 1905 scale and the 1916 Stanford-Binet to modern IQ batteries, with ongoing debates over test bias and AI comparisons.
Human male sexuality
Human male sexuality covers male sexual desire, arousal, erection, ejaculation, and orgasm, testosterone's central hormonal role, Kinsey's 1948 report and the Kinsey Scale, Masters and Johnson's 1966 physiology research, and how masculinity norms shape male sexual behavior and health.
Human mating strategies
Human mating strategies: evolved short-term, long-term, extra-pair, poaching, and guarding tactics from sexual strategies theory, varying by sex, mate value, sex ratio, ecology, and culture.
Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people between places, permanently or temporarily. Also called emigration, immigration, and forced displacement; 304 million international migrants in 2024, 3.7% of world population.
Human multitasking
Human multitasking is the attempt to perform two or more tasks at once or in rapid alternation, a subject of cognitive-psychological research on task switching.
Human nature
Human nature is the set of properties characteristic of humans as such, from the Aristotelian "rational animal" slogan and traditional package to evolutionary psychology, plasticity, and modern rejections by Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism.
Human overpopulation
Human overpopulation: the claim that population exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Also Malthusianism. Current UN WPP 2024 projects peak at 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s; fertility at 2.25; carrying capacity estimates 7.7-12 billion.
Human physical appearance
Human physical appearance: the visible constitution of the body, from melanin-based skin, hair, and eye color to facial structure and body shape, studied through genetics, anthropometry, physiognomy history, attractiveness research, and lookism.
Human population planning
Human population planning: deliberate government efforts to influence population size, growth, and structure, via pro-natalist or anti-natalist policies, distinct from individual family planning; spans Malthusian era, China's one-child policy, and modern pro-natalist programs in China, Japan, South Korea, and Hungary.
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), founded as the Human Rights Campaign Fund in 1980 by Stephen Endean, is a leading US LGBTQ+ political advocacy organization, known for the Corporate Equality Index and Equality Voter mobilization.
Human sex ratio
Human sex ratio: ratio of males to females, especially the sex ratio at birth (SRB), about 1.05 male per female live births naturally. Covers conception-to-birth trajectory, regional baselines (1.031-1.067), and the 12 countries with SRB imbalance and 23.1 million missing female births.
Human sexual response cycle
Human sexual response cycle: model of physiological and emotional changes during sexual activity. Masters and Johnson's 1966 four-stage linear model (excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution), Kaplan's desire phase, and Basson's 2000 circular female model.
Human sexuality
Human sexuality: the study of sexual attraction, orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual), identity, behavior, and sexual health; distinct from sex/gender measurement and shaped by biological, psychological, and cultural factors.
Humanistic psychology
Humanistic psychology, also called existential-humanistic psychology, is an approach emphasizing personal growth, subjective experience, and self-actualization, developed by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers in the mid-20th-century United States.
Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is emergency assistance to people affected by conflict, disaster, or crisis, guided by humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. It spans the ICRC (founded 1863), UN agencies coordinated by OCHA, and NGOs; 2025 appeals of about $47 billion were less than 17 percent funded by August.