Future evolution

by Ward, Peter

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Full title :Future evolution / Peter Ward ; images by Alexis Rockman ; foreword by Niles Eldredge.

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"Thousands or millions of years into the future, what will our species be like? Will it change radically? Or will we become builders of the next dominant intelligence on Earth - the machines?"

"These and many other seemingly fantastic scenarios are the very real possibilities explored in Peter Ward's Future Evolution, a penetrating look at what might come next in the history of the planet. Looking to the past for clues about the future, Ward describes how the main catalyst for evolutionary change has historically been mass extinction. While many scientists gloomily predict that humanity will eventually create such a situation, Ward argues that one is already well under way - the extinction of large mammals - and that a new age of humanity is coming that will radically revise the diversity of life on Earth.

Finally, Ward examines the question of human extinction and reaches the starting conclusion that the likeliest scenario is not our imminent demise but long-term survival - perhaps reaching as far as the death of the Sun."--Jacket.