Surprisingly, many very intelligent people do not realize that homo sapiens could evolve into a new genus in the relatively near future, possibly as early as 200k years. This leads to some wildly speculative conversations, particularly when one tosses sexual selection into the fray. A couple joints don't hurt either.
Thing is, even if humanity survives long enough to speciate, even if this is not an evolutionary dead end (as I tend to think), it is beyond unlikely that any mammals, much less humans, will still exist in three billion years. Life will have perished in some cataclysm, or will have assumed forms we can only begin to imagine. There may be some other species' civilization, there may not.
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Date: 2009-10-27 04:07 am (UTC)Surprisingly, many very intelligent people do not realize that homo sapiens could evolve into a new genus in the relatively near future, possibly as early as 200k years. This leads to some wildly speculative conversations, particularly when one tosses sexual selection into the fray. A couple joints don't hurt either.
Thing is, even if humanity survives long enough to speciate, even if this is not an evolutionary dead end (as I tend to think), it is beyond unlikely that any mammals, much less humans, will still exist in three billion years. Life will have perished in some cataclysm, or will have assumed forms we can only begin to imagine. There may be some other species' civilization, there may not.