{"id":136593,"date":"2022-03-11T00:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/future-evolution-how-will-humans-change-in-the-next-10000-years"},"modified":"2022-03-11T00:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:35:05","slug":"future-evolution-how-will-humans-change-in-the-next-10000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/future-evolution-how-will-humans-change-in-the-next-10000-years","title":{"rendered":"Future Evolution: How Will Humans Change in the Next 10,000 Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/future-evolution-how-will-humans-change-in-the-next-10000-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READER QUESTION:<\/strong> <em>If humans don\u2019t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more advanced species than what we are at the moment? Harry Bonas, 57, Nigeria<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Humanity is the unlikely result of four billion years of evolution.<\/p>\n<p>From self-replicating molecules in Archean seas, to eyeless fish in the Cambrian deep, to mammals scurrying from dinosaurs in the dark, and then, finally, improbably, ourselves\u2014evolution shaped us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READER QUESTION: If humans don\u2019t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more advanced species than what we are at the moment? Harry Bonas, 57, Nigeria Humanity is the unlikely result of four billion years of evolution. From self-replicating molecules [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,493,385,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-climatology","category-evolution","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}