{"id":138170,"date":"2022-04-15T14:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/technological-innovation-is-spurring-evolutionary-changes-heres-how-humanity-may-look-10000-years-from-now"},"modified":"2022-04-15T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T19:03:41","slug":"technological-innovation-is-spurring-evolutionary-changes-heres-how-humanity-may-look-10000-years-from-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/technological-innovation-is-spurring-evolutionary-changes-heres-how-humanity-may-look-10000-years-from-now","title":{"rendered":"Technological innovation is spurring evolutionary changes. Here\u2019s how humanity may look 10,000 years from now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technological-innovation-is-spurring-evolutionary-changes-heres-how-humanity-may-look-10000-years-from-now.jpg\"><\/a><\/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 \u2013 evolution shaped us.<\/p>\n<p>Organisms reproduced imperfectly. Mistakes made when copying genes sometimes made them better fit to their environments, so those genes tended to get passed on. More reproduction followed, and more mistakes, the process repeating over billions of generations. Finally, <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> appeared. But we aren\u2019t the end of that story. Evolution won\u2019t stop with us, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126952-400-review-the-10000-year-explosion-by-gregory-cochran-and-henry-harpending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we might even be evolving faster than ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to predict the future. The world will probably change in ways we can\u2019t imagine. But we can make educated guesses. Paradoxically, the best way to predict the future is probably looking back at the past, and assuming past trends will continue going forward. This suggests some surprising things about our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 \u2013 evolution shaped us. Organisms reproduced imperfectly. Mistakes made when copying genes sometimes made them better fit to their environments, so those genes tended to get passed on. More [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138170","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}