• Question: what do you think the next evolutions in humans will be?

    Asked by anon-208428 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 5 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-208360, anon-208880.
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      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Super interesting question. I recently read Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari who discusses this a little. He thinks that humans are currently evolving as we speak, and faster than ever as technology is progressing so quickly. Does the fact that some humans now have implants (like pacemakers or robotic arms) mean that they are no longer human…?

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      Gill Harrison answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I was thinking that we might eventually lose the appendix, because I had heard it was not much use to us now our diets had changed, but I then looked it up & have found that it might have a use in immune response (fighting disease and infection) in the fetus and younger people…so now I don’t know what to say.

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      Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I guess we’re always continually evolving – evolution doesn’t stop, it’s just really slow!

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