Ten Thousand Years Later...
The sign read 'bred in captivity', as was now usual with these creatures everywhere. They milled around their enclosures, all the same species, but of different colors; some dark, others deathly pale, still others reddish or brown.
They were primitive homo sapiens from years past, long extinct in the wild.
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