# The Fifteenth Men — Last and First Men character guide

> The Fifteenth Men in Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Fifteenth Men, The Fifteenth Men

**First appearance:** 0066-xv-the-last-men

## Who they are

A later human species in the sequence, mentioned in the future history.

## In the story

### [XIV: Neptune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/last_and_first_men_se/chapters/xiv-neptune)

A later Neptunian species that made steady progress, abolishing five great evils and eventually designing the Sixteenth Men.

### [III: Slow Conquest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/last_and_first_men_se/chapters/iii-slow-conquest)

Highest form of natural man on Neptune, first to conceive enduring racial purpose to remake human nature, abolished five great evils.

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