Evolution

We’ve started a new science project on evolution by trying to understand the broad sweep of evolution of life on Earth over the last four billion years!  Here’s Filip’s depiction of evolution, ending with a faceless modern human playing Fortnite and eating KFC!

And here’s Olive’s, ending with the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans, just six millions years ago.

It was interesting to dwell on just how short a time species of human have been on Earth – and on how very recently Homo Sapiens evolved.  But when the children were asked what they wanted to know about evolution, all the questions were about whether and how human evolution might continue and about the potential for genetically-engineered super-humans and robots.   We’ll come back to this at the end of the project.