=Naturalists= 
The smallest uplift faction is also, perhaps, the saddest. Naturalists are those who condemn the process of uplift entirely. They refute the right of transhumanity to raise uplifts without permission (even though such permission is impossible to grant) and believe that the proper path for any biological species is to steer its own evolution unhindered by the manipulations of others. To this end, naturalists seek to halt the machinery of uplift. Allying with neo-primitivists, they have been known to launch terror attacks on uplift facilities and researchers.
Many naturalists also wish to personally reverse their alterations and return to their baseline animal species, or at least as close to it as they can get. Some of them have taken this suicidal path, recruiting rogue genehackers to develop procedures to reverse many of the physiological and cognitive enhancements in their genetic code. Others have taken the quicker route, and submitted their alpha ego to neural pruning psychosurgery, effectively crippling their cognitive faculties. The main problem facing these reverted naturalists is where to go afterwards. Some are taken in by friends and supporters (often human neo-primitivists) who care for them in habitats with nature preserves. The small habitat known as Second Chance, in the Mars-Sol L4 point, is one particular refuge for these poor benighted creatures. Several others have arranged to be deposited on an appropriate exoplanet, where they can run (or swim or ﬂy) free, while others have contracted with scavengers or reclaimers to be taken and left behind on Earth.
Not all naturalists go this far, of course. Most are content to argue their positions and peacefully do what they can to stop the growth of uplift research. These often work ﬂipper-in-hand with the reclaimer movement, hoping to see a day when the Earth can be taken back and its former animal populations can be reseeded to live, die, and evolve as nature intended.

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