Before and After Humans

In: Culture Interactive Science

27 Oct 2009

This is part informative and part just plain weird. The informative part is that you can click through the past 7 million years of the human evolutionary tree and view summaries of basic characteristics. The weird part is that it also allows you to click through the next 4 million years and see summaries of how we’re going to mess ourselves up. Apparently this is part of MSNBC’s “Fast Forward: The Future of Evolution” feature.

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