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Humans are animals, and our extinction is inevitable – but we’re still pretty amazing

22 September 2018

9:00 AM

22 September 2018

9:00 AM

Ever since enlivenment of the primordial blob, before thoughts were first verbalised, all nature has always been motivated by a dynamic ambition to improve, to grow stronger, more agile, inventive and fertile. The successful continuously grow more successful; the failures disappear. This selective, upward process has been defined as evolution.

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