Human Evolution: ‘Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down To… Three Possibilities’ Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience, Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneck speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were clunky behemoths. Forty years before that, far more Americans traveled by train than by plane. Forty years before that, cars were just starting to supplant horses. Over the past couple millennia, a mere blip of Earth’s history, humans have manifestly reshaped the planet – from the physical to the biological. The ground, the oceans, the air, the flora, the fauna – nothing is as it was. And yet, despite this radical transformation, it can seem like we ourselves haven’t changed much at all…  But that’s an illusion. “Humans are still evolving,” Dr. Scott Solomon, an Associate Teaching Professor at Rice University specializing in ecology, evolutionary biology, and scientific communication, wrote in his forthcoming book Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds. Sure, over the last 10,000 or so years, our physical alterations have been relatively muted compared to the changes seen in society and on our planet. Essentially, we’ve shrunk a bit, and our jaws have weakened. But even a little change is still change, and it begs a question: “In the far-flung future, what will happen to us, evolutionarily speaking?” It’s a question that Solomon considered in his 2016 book, Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution. He surmised that our ultimate evolutionary fate could follow one of three basic trajectories. The first is a standstill – our species will remain roughly as it currently is. But Solomon thinks this is unlikely. “So far, in the 3.7-­billion-­year history of life on Earth this has not happened to a single species… All species change, some

FDA Removes Web Content Saying Cellphones Are Harmless – HHS Launches Study Without fanfare, the Food and Drug Administration has deleted multiple web pages asserting that cellphones are not dangerous. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the move comes as the Department of Health and Human Services has begun a new investigation into potential health effects of cellphone radiation. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has previously declared that cellphones are causing harms that are not yet fully acknowledged. “There’s cellphone tumors. I’m representing hundreds of people who have cellphone tumors behind the ear. It’s always on the ear that you favor with your cellphone…We have the science,” Kennedy said in a 2023 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. “You should never put one next to your head… I put it on speakerphone or use earphones.”  Marty Makary’s FDA has deleted web content declaring that cellphones don’t pose any health risks. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr (right) has previously suggested there are unknown dangers. (Saul Loeb AFP) Responding to a Journal inquiry about the change to the FDA website, HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said, “The FDA removed webpages with old conclusions about cellphone radiation while HHS undertakes a study on electromagnetic radiation and health research to identify gaps in knowledge, including on new technologies, to ensure safety and efficacy.”  One of the deleted pages included a passage declaring that “the weight of scientific evidence has not linked exposure to radio frequency energy from cellphone use with any health problems.” There may be more scrubbing of the site to come: The Journal notes that the FDA’s site still has summaries of the deleted pages, but the links redirect to other generalized content about the agency’s regulatory mission.  Kennedy, who had a career as an environmental litigator, has long engaged on this issue. Kennedy represented people suing