Full record for post-human adj.

Definition of or relating to a time after the extinction of humans
OED requirements any evidence 1936
Earliest cite H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Out of Time"
Comment Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1990 reprint of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time". Mike Christie verified this in its first publication (Astounding Stories, June 1936)

This entry has beeen crested to distinguish from the meaning related to a society or world of posthumans, as posthumans could, and in much SF do, co-exist with humans.

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1936 H. P. Lovecraft Shadow Out of Time in Astounding Stories June 145/2 I knew there were two more cellar levels in this titan edifice, and trembled with fresh panic as I recalled the metal-clamped trapdoor on the lowest one. There could be no guards now—for what had lurked beneath had long since done its hideous work and sunk into its long decline. By the time of the post-human beetle race it would be quite dead. And yet, as I thought of the native legends, I trembled anew.
1952 P. S. Miller Reference Library in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 159/2 There are the tendrilless slans--numerous, powerful, and vicious—with the same distorted organs and magnified physical and mental powers as the true slans, but without the telepathic powers of the post-human race ‘created’ by Samuel Lann at least fifteen hundred years before.
1976 R. A. Lafferty Not To Mention Camels vi. 75 Even from a purely technical point of view, you have advanced the posthuman personality beyond any others.
1985 B. Sterling Schismatrix 133 People began to speak, for the first time, of the Schismatrix—of a posthuman solar system, diverse yet unified, where tolerance would rule and every faction would have a share.
1994 Interzone Nov. 56/3 The strongest and most satisfying sense of strangeness comes from those scenes set in the cold quietus of space, in which the revolt of the freedead and glimpses of an eternal, posthuman future are limned with concise precision.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando iii. 81 Their owner is a posthuman genius loci of the net, an agalmic entrepreneur turned policy wonk, specializing in the politics of AI emancipation.