What If Our Bodies Kept Evolving?
Sometimes asking crazy questions is the best way to learn about the world.
Our bodies probably will keep evolving. Over the next thousands and millions of years, the human species could transform into something completely unrecognizable — or not. Predicting human evolution is one of science’s trickiest tasks because so much of it relies on the biggest unpredictable variable of all: the environment. So… how will it all shake out?
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