Cyborgs toward becoming a reality of human evolution

of their new book The Dynamic Human, authors Professor Maciej Henneberg and Dr Aurthur Saniotis chart the entire scope of human evolution, with a examine the past, present and destiny improvement of our species.

And whilst they believe that destiny people will greater quite simply combine their own natural cloth with era, the authors warning that such improvements must now not ignore human beings' fantastically complicated biology.

Professor Henneberg and Dr Saniotis are contributors of the biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy studies Unit inside the college of Adelaide's school of medication. they may be also associates of the Institute of Evolutionary medicinal drug on the college of Zurich, Switzerland.

Professor Henneberg says their underlying method to the e-book is that the human species maintains to conform: "there is still a bent with the aid of a few to view the cutting-edge form of humans as static, and that we are able to stay as such into the destiny until some catastrophe reasons our extinction," he says.

"however, within the Dynamic Human we gift the opportunity: that our world is a constantly changing complicated machine and people are part of this ever-converting machine. within this framework, human evolution is an ongoing process that shapes us now and could shape us inside the future, body and mind. We ought to recognize it in an effort to live on and be capable of direct it to our advantage," he says.

many of the destiny guidelines highlighted with the aid of the book is the wide range of thoughts and body enhancements probably to be had to human beings -- from cybernetic implants that could connect our brains immediately to computers, to nanotechnology, and a selection of medical prosthetics.

"the advent of brain-system interfaces may additionally force people to redefine in which our humanity lies; it will blur the boundary among human and gadget," Dr Saniotis says.

"This boundary in fact has been blurred for a long term. millions of people are currently wearing technological gadgets geared toward enhancing our lives: from eye glasses, to hearing aids, tempo makers, bionic ears, coronary heart valves and artificial limbs. since 2002, about fifty nine,000 humans have acquired a few shape of neurological prosthetics, along with to help them hear or see, and this generation will increase unexpectedly within the coming years.

"We have become increasingly depending on such gadgets and it can become clean to consider the frame as a sort of machine with components that need replacing. Of path, the frame is not a machine however an evolutionary organism of enormous complexity. The human mind isn't always a logical machine, it is a fabricated from organic interactions. That complexity need to now not be underestimated," he says.