Daily Best: As humans accelerate our impact on the earth and on ourselves, will 50,000 years of self-evolution both destroy and save us?
Humans may be approaching a dodo moment of truth, a nexus where we either adapt to rapid changes in our environment, or go extinct.(The dodo being the flightless, goofy-beaked bird native to the island of Mauritius obliterated by hungry European sailors during a few decades in the 1600s.)
Unlike the dodo, however, humans...