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وَلَوْ تَرَىٰ إِذْ فَزِعُوا فَلَا فَوْتَ وَأُخِذُوا مِن مَّكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ
وَقَالُوا آمَنَّا بِهِ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ التَّنَاوُشُ مِن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ
وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِهِ مِن قَبْلُ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ مِن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ
وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِأَشْيَاعِهِم مِّن قَبْلُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا فِي شَكٍّ مُّرِيبٍ
And if you (could) see when they will be terrified but (there will be) no escape, and they will be seized from a place near. And they will say, "We believe in it." But how for them (will be) the receiving from a place far off? And certainly, they disbelieved in it before. And they utter conjectures about the unseen from a place far off.
And a barrier will be placed between them and between what they desire, as was done with their kind before. Indeed, they were in doubt disquieting.
[Al-Quran 34:51-54]
وَمَا أَمْرُنَا إِلَّا وَاحِدَةٌ كَلَمْحٍ بِالْبَصَرِ
وَلَقَدْ أَهْلَكْنَا أَشْيَاعَكُمْ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
And not (is) Our Command but one, like the twinkling (of) the eye.
And certainly We destroyed your kinds, so is (there) any who will receive admonition?
[Al-Quran 54:50-51]
We, homo sapiens, are not the only of our kind. There were those of our kind that the scriptures and fossil evidence points to. We can debate and disagree on Creation vs Evolution, but the evidence must be considered and efforts made to reconcile fact with faith. Creationists believe that God created everything, while Evolutionists believe that species evolved.
The Quran informs us that Allah created each and every creation, and it also refers to our kinds having been destroyed before.
Science informs us of the fossils of various species, and insists that all except Homo sapiens have gone extinct.
So, there is definitely an overlap, if not in Evolution, then certainly in 'Kind', and also in future fate of our 'kind'.
Wikipedia: Chronospecies [as on September 30, 2025]:
A chronospecies is a species derived from a sequential development pattern that involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale. The sequence of alterations eventually produces a population that is physically, morphologically, and/or geneticallydistinct from the original ancestors. Throughout the change, there is only one species in the lineage at any point in time, as opposed to cases where divergent evolution produces contemporary species with a common ancestor. The related term paleospecies (or palaeospecies) indicates an extinct species only identified with fossil material. That identification relies on distinct similarities between the earlier fossil specimens and some proposed descendant although the exact relationship to the later species is not always defined. In particular, the range of variation within all the early fossil specimens does not exceed the observed range that exists in the later species.
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