Photo: FUTURE HUMANS: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve



Looking backward, evolutionary theory—popularized by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published in 1859—has traced humanity's roots to fossil apes.

Now, 150 years later, scientists are looking forward and seeing a range of evolutionary futures for humans. Will our descendants be muscle-bound cyborgs? Electronic immortals? Or is human evolution dead?

Photograph by Rebecca Hale, NGS


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