Yes! Definitely. We will continue to evolve, and at some point, we won’t be human anymore, we’ll be something else. It’s difficult to say what our descendants will look like in millions of years time. Some models suggest that we will be hairless with much reduced jaws. Several suggest that future humans will have a darker skin, for two reasons: birth rates are higher in countries where people are more dark-skinned, and darker skin may pose a selective advantage against cancers caused by increased UV influx as a result of climate change. Other models suggest that we will become increasingly transhuman – where our bodies will be enhanced by nanobots or by larger physical computer interfaces. Ultimately, though, once we expand into space, and establish colonies on other worlds, the future of ‘humans’ will be safer than when on Earth alone.
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