Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9 percent, are extinct. Some left descendants. Most--plesiosaurs, trilobites, Brontosaurus--didn't. That's also true of other human species. Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens. Humans are inevitably […]
Will Humans Go Extinct? For All the Existential Threats, We'll Likely Be Here for a Very Long Time
Singularity Hub - 8 May 2020 16:00
Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9 percent, are extinct. Some left descendants. Most--plesiosaurs, trilobites, Brontosaurus--didn't. That's also true of other human species. Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens. Humans are inevitably […]
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