Question

What comes after homo sapiens?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Advances in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) are altering both human health and behavior. In his new book, What Comes After Homo Sapiens? When and How Our Species Will Evolve into Another Species (DWS Publishing, Sept. 5, 2017), author Don Simborg examines the implications of these powerful tools.

Answer 2

Simborg takes readers on this futuristic exploration by first investigating how our species evolved into its current form about 200,000 years ago. He then presents evidence that the same evolutionary forces that got Homo sapien to this point are no longer at work.

The next step will be to actually change people's genes. That could conceivably be done in two ways: by changing genes in the relevant organ only (gene therapy) or by altering the entire genome of an individual (what is known as germ-line therapy).