Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer. What does that mean for the future of our species?
Technology in deep time: How it evolves alongside us - BBC
WEBWe often think about technology as the latest innovation: the smartphone, the 3D printer, the VR headset. It’s only by taking a longer view, however, that we can understand its entwining...
The past, present and future of human evolution
WEBFeb 14, 2018 · It’s commonly thought that our interaction with the world through culture and technology (such as clothes, tools or medicines) has buffered the pressure on our bodies to adapt biologically to ...
Why we are living in an era of unnatural selection - BBC
WEBHumanity's influence on living organisms – both intentional and unintentional – is causing them to evolve in new and unusual ways. But how far could human-driven adaptation go?
Rethinking human evolution through technology
WEBJun 13, 2023 · New fossil finds and technological breakthroughs in collecting and decoding ancient DNA are re-writing the history of human evolution, often with shocking and surprising results.
Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will …
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Humanity is the unlikely result of 4 billion years of evolution. From self-replicating molecules in Archean seas, to eyeless fish in the Cambrian deep, to mammals scurrying from dinosaurs in the...
How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution
WEBSep 1, 2020 · Analyses of DNA have revolutionized the study of human evolution. Comparing the human genome with the genomes of the living great apes has shown conclusively that we are most closely related to...
Human evolution is biological & technological evolution
WEBJul 1, 2020 · The evolution of the human & machine species, from naked man to man with progressively more and more powerful add-ons (artifacts, contrivances, devices, machines). In evolution, the flow system morphs with freedom in the discernible direction identified as the constructal law.
Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more
WEBMay 18, 2023 · Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power. Humans did not emerge from a single region of Africa, suggests a powerful modelling study. Rather, our ancestors moved...
How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s …
WEBDec 29, 2021 · For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million...