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Saturday, May 9, 2020

SingularityHub, 8 May 2020 - Will Humans Go Extinct? For All the Existential Threats, We’ll Likely Be Here for a Very Long Time

Title:
Will Humans Go Extinct? For All the Existential Threats, We’ll Likely Be Here for a Very Long Time

Author:
Nick Longrich

Published:
SingularityHub, 8 May 2020

From the article:
"Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9 percent, are extinct.  

Some left descendants. Most—plesiosaurs, trilobites, Brontosaurus—didn’t. That’s also true of other human species. Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens. Humans are inevitably heading for extinction. The question isn’t whether we go extinct, but when."

To read this article:
https://singularityhub.com/2020/05/08/will-humans-go-extinct-for-all-the-existential-threats-well-likely-be-here-for-a-very-long-time/