The way I see it that instinct is the cause behind so much suffering and injustice in the world.

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    This current version of humans? No. But could it ever happen? Absolutely, if we assume our future evolutionary human descendants survive and provided we can supply everyone’s needs.

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      Yes …and the name will have to change from Homo sapiens to something else.

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        I’ve heard from other evolutionary biologists that the next gen will be homo sapiens sapiens, and we’ll be renamed something else.

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            No, I just watch content from evolutionary biologists, because it’s something I’m interested in.

            It may not be that our version of the species will be renamed, but since species delineations are somewhat arbitrary (where does one generation stop and one start, when it’s actually a gradual process?), future generations of biologists may decide that we are something else. Either way, we won’t be around to know!