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IFLScience The Big Questions: What Would A Human On Mars Look Like?

Could making a home on an alien world take us on a different evolutionary trajectory?

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Are humans done evolving – or could settling on an alien world with an environment unlike Earth’s take us on a different evolutionary trajectory?

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Host Tom Hale is joined by Scott Solomon, author and professor of bioscience at Rice University, to discuss the myriad ways Homo sapiens may continue to evolve on Earth, and how future human settlements on Mars might influence our species’ evolution.

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDOctober 3, 2024

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