Human Futures
As a species we have no right to exist. As a humans we are new comers. Crocodiles have been around for over 200 million years, sharks, 400 million years.
What were the environmentaL pressures that favoured us homo sapiens?
What are the essential, core features of homo sapiens?
What, if anything, can the past tell us about the future?
With a global population of nearly 8 billion people, a crisis due to shortages of resources, climate change and the sci-fi prospect of Artificial Intelligence being able to supplant humans as the planet's cleverest thinker, Paleo-Anthropology has never been more relevant.