We’re Evolving Beyond This Rock Right Now

We’re Evolving Beyond This Rock Right Now

To understand our strange future, we have to remember that we are a dying species, as are all species on the Earth. But this condition is not just because of the inevitable geophysical and astrophysical changes that will modify and even erase the Earth’s present environments. Our species, like any other, hovers in only a temporary—largely illusory—equilibrium before evolution whisks things along in a churn of divergence, speciation, and extincti…