![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, the discovery of potentially habitable planets beyond the solar system has made it increasingly likely that human-like life may exist elsewhere in the universe. Wells, in his “The Time Machine” (1895), speculated about the nature of future incarnations of humankind. While just one encodes our own species, Homo sapiens, vast numbers would encode different human species that have never existed others would address precursors such as Homo erectus and Homo habilis.Įvery species is the product of both chance and natural selection-if the tape of life on Earth could be rewound to its starting point over 3.5 billion years ago and replayed, the emergence of modern humans would not be inevitable. One might similarly imagine another kind of infinite library, comprising not books but the genomes of all possible types of humans. Each was unique, and despite containing great swaths of irrelevancies, the library represented all possibility, including accounts of the past, present and future. ![]() In “The Library of Babel” (1941), the author Jorge Luis Borges imagined an infinite library of books. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art Rebecca Wragg Sykes 4. Kindred is a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date theories and technological advances in paleoanthropology and archaeology, and a fascinating tour of what is now known about the sophisticated Neanderthal culture. Review products Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. Neanderthal skull from La-Chapelle-aux-Saints, France. ![]()
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