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"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way."
- Robert Heinlein

Earther  
  A person born on planet Earth.  

As far as I know, the first use of this term in science fiction.

The Kudthu jailer woke Paddy by running horny fingers along the bars. "Earther, wake up.”

Paddy arose, feeling his throat. “No need to break a man’s sleep for a hanging. I’d be here in the morning.”

“Come, no talk,” rumbled the jailer, a manlike creature eight feet tall with rough gray skin, eyes like blue satin pincushions where a true man’s cheeks would have been.

Technovelgy from The Five Gold Bands, by Jack Vance.
Published by Startling Stories in 1950
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CM Kornbluth wrote in Make Mine Mars (1952):

'You're an Earther, aren't you?' asked one of the Martians.

Bernal nodded. 'Yes, I'm from Earth.'

The Martians looked at each other. 'We've never seen an Earther before,' said one of them. 'What are you like?'

Bernal smiled. 'We're just like you,' he said. 'We're human beings.'

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