The Human Evolution – Past, Present and the Future
Gogu
GHIORGHITA
Academy of Romanian
Scientists, 3 Ilfov Street, Bucharest, Romania
* Corresponding author e-mail: g.ghiorghita43@yahoo.com
Abstract
Just as the title itself
suggests, the present article represents a synthesis of the information
pertaining to the origins of the modern human being, the history of his
becoming, his departure from Africa (the cradle from where he emerged) and his
conquest of Earth, his transition from nomadic behaviour
and the hunter-gatherer occupation (which spanned most of his existence) to
the shepherd-farmer one, as well as the
consequences of this so-called revolution on the evolution, of his social
relationships and on the gradual progress made in all spheres of his activity
over the past 10,000 years. The question is whether or not man evolved after
his emergence about 200,000 years ago and migration from Africa. One chapter of
this paper is dedicated to this aspect, bringing a series of arguments to
attest that man has continued to evolve biologically and that, depending on the
specific conditions of environment and life, diseases faced over centuries and
millennia etc, he has undergone not only spiritual
and cultural ones but also some genetic changes. Some obvious questions arise
as to whether the evolution of man as a species has ended or he will still
evolve in the future, the perspective of this process in view of the conditions
of huge progress in various technologies, medicine, biology and molecular
genetics, genetic engineering (intervention tool in its very genetic structure)
as well as regarding the fulfilment of perhaps its most daring dream - that of
conquering other planets. The last chapter of the paper tries to offer
solutions to these challenges.
Keywords: origin of man, species of Homo,
human evolution, man of the future
DOI https://doi.org/10.56082/annalsarscibio.2020.2.5
