Humanity will change. Or be replaced. Or go extinct. An exploration of the many potential posthuman offspring of humankind, from the biological to the artificial.

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What do you imagine when I say the future of human evolution?

A superbeing with powers beyond comprehension? A mutated oddity far removed from our idea of humanity? Or perhaps nothing but decaying remains left in the wake of our extinction?

Scientists and scifi authors have long speculated on what our future selves will look like — and as technology advances, our species might evolve much faster than natural selection would typically allow. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore posthuman scenarios from the absurd to the frighteningly plausible — and meet the many possible successors to humankind…

0:00 Future of Human Evolution
0:43 Man After Graham
4:23 The Atomic Mutant
7:41 The Extinction Alternative
10:23 A Planet of Apes
13:38 Rise of the Superhuman
16:18 Technological Ascension
19:02 Who We Choose to Be

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Media Shown: Project Graham, All Tomorrows, Man After Man, Last and First Men, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Chernobyl, The Time Traveler, Fallout, World Without End, Beyond the Time Barrier, Day the World Ended, Peace on Earth, Metropolis, Cyberpunk 2077, Signalis, Altered Carbon, Akira, Scanners, The Sender, Firestarter, Lucy, Watchmen, Man of Steel, XMen

Sources:
Human Evolution Timeline, Brian Handwerk: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...

♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian

♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow
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