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Will We Keep Evolving?

Bad news for everyone waiting with bated breath for retractable ears, transparent skin or any other creepy-but-cool evolutionary manifestation: As far as anyone can tell, it looks like humans are pretty much going to stay the way we are today. That's assuming, of course, that we manage to keep from wiping ourselves out with nuclear weapons or environmental disasters.

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    web resources
    Biology and Evolutionary Theory
    The quickest way to educate yourself about evolution from the "Talk Origins" archive

    Virtual Galapagos
    Fascinating interactive site by Terra Quest, which explains the role of natural selection in evolution

    "The Origin of Species"
    From the Online Literature Library, every word of Charles Darwin's masterwork on evolution