1. Why are human impacts on the environment important in the process of our evolution?
2. Are you optimistic about humanity’s future? Why or why not?
3. Assuming we survive, how do you think we will evolve over the next 100,000 years or more? Do you imagine us diverging into different species, converging into a more homogenous species, evolving more alien like characteristics, becoming mechanized, or something else? Describe what you imagine as if you were a physical anthropologist who time traveled into the future for the purpose of identifying, categorizing, describing, and defining future humans.
5. We now know that nature (i.e., culture) and nurture (i.e., biology) are important components in human behavior. In your opinion, how important is the evolving nature of human culture(s) to the biological evolution of humanity (i.e., biocultural evolution)? Explain your reasoning.