From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe human racethe human racePERSON/PEOPLEall people, considered together as a group SYN mankind → human race
Examples from the Corpus
the human race• The entire human race could be wiped out by nuclear war.• Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.• Until then, no member of the human race had ever been able to make a map of the whole world. 