Category: Evolution

Thoughts on Human Evolution

  • An Introduction: A Rebuttal to My Own Anxieties In a previous post, “Brilliant thinking is rare…,” I explored a deep anxiety about the long-term biological future of humanity. The premise was supported by modern genetic research. While any two humans share 99.9% of their DNA, this often-cited fact obscures a deeper truth. Polygenic Scores (PGS),…

  • Peter Thiel, in the first chapter of his seminal work Zero to One, “The Challenge of the Future,” confronts us with a profound question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” This is not merely an intellectual exercise; it is a call to arms against conformity. It compels us to seek…

  • From the cosmic singularity of the Big Bang, through billions of years of stellar and planetary formation, life’s intricate dance emerged on Earth. Approximately 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang, the first life forms appeared. Human evolution, a relatively recent chapter in this grand narrative, saw our ancestors, including the various hominids and eventually…