The human race, a certainty to include tip-top staff (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
mortal man
'a certainty to include tip-top staff' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'the human race' is the wordplay.
'the human' becomes 'mortal' ('mortal' can be a synonym of 'human').
'race' becomes 'man' (I've seen this before).
'mortal'+'man'='MORTAL MAN'
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