Humans today live in big times. Our brains are getting larger, our lives longer, and our cultures, in many ways, more advanced and refined each day.

All together, those things show the leap of our species ahead of any other. They also might signal an impending evolutionary jump in which our future descendants will be mightily different from our ancestors, and even ourselves. That’s the finding of a speculative study in the journal Current Aging Science. Similar to how monkeys advanced into apes and apes into humans, we may again be the midst again of a evolutionary shift, the result of which might be an entirely different species that’s extremely intelligent, lives much longer, and reproduces far later in life.

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