http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/09/21/the-biological-future-of-humanity/ museum exhibit, technology and design news from ideum Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:33:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/09/21/the-biological-future-of-humanity/#comment-8905 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » More on the Conference Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:01:26 +0000 http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/09/21/the-biological-future-of-humanity/#comment-8905 [...] As I mentioned in my last post, Ian Tattersall is the curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He’s also the author of several books. I’ve been reading Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, which is fascinating. Some of the subjects covered in the book he discussed in his talk today, Patterns in human evolution and the human biological future. Although, the aspects of human “future development” were new. As Tattersall presented this morning, with a large and mobile population there is no possibility for us as humans to evolve, “Change is indeed occurring today, at unprecedented rates; but it is doing so on the technological rather than on the biological level, involving our ongoing exploration of a biological capacity that already exists.” [...] [...] As I mentioned in my last post, Ian Tattersall is the curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He’s also the author of several books. I’ve been reading Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, which is fascinating. Some of the subjects covered in the book he discussed in his talk today, Patterns in human evolution and the human biological future. Although, the aspects of human “future development” were new. As Tattersall presented this morning, with a large and mobile population there is no possibility for us as humans to evolve, “Change is indeed occurring today, at unprecedented rates; but it is doing so on the technological rather than on the biological level, involving our ongoing exploration of a biological capacity that already exists.” [...]

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