From beauty to intelligence, from personality to lifespan… What will people be like in 10 thousand years?
Anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa about 300 thousand years ago. The first humans, who were very different from us in height, appearance and even brain size, evolved over time and took our current form. So how will it be after that? Nicholas Longrish, an expert in evolutionary biology, explains…
If humans don’t perish in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact within the next 10,000 years, will we evolve into a more advanced species than we are now? Based on his question, Bath University Professor of Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Nicholas Longrichtells The Conversation how the future will come for Humanity …
“Humanity is an unexpected result of 4 billion years of evolution,” Longrich says.
We evolved from self-replicating molecules in the Archaean, from eyeless fish in the Cambrian, to mammals fleeing dinosaurs in the dark, and finally to humans. But we are not the end of this story. Evolution will not end with us, and we may even be evolving faster than ever before.
It is difficult to predict the future. The world will change in ways we can’t possibly imagine. But it is possible to make reasonable guesses. The best way to predict the future is to look at the past and assume that past trends will continue to move forward. This can give us some surprising information about our future.
