Why are rates of conditions like autism asthma obesity & allergies exploding at an unprecedented pace? Why are humans living longer getting smarter & having far fewer children? If Darwin were alive today how would he explain this new world? Could our children eventually become a different species
- or several? In Evolving Ourselves futurist Juan Enriquez & scientist Steve Gullans take us on a sweeping tour of how humans are changing the course of evolution
- sometimes intentionally sometimes not It is a chronicle of where our remarkable new capabilities for altering our bodies other living creatures & our environment are taking us in the near term & introduces the possibility that we might cause our own extinction in the long run