THE human race evolved to become the Homo sapiens (from Latin "wise man") some 315,000 years ago in Africa. But unsatisfied with how its supremacy rules the universe, evolution continues for humankind. From Homo sapiens, a classification applied in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, human evolution is gearing towards what humans want to be in the future — Homo Deus — playing "god" with itself and the tools it creates and uses.
Author and historian Yubal Noah Harari coined the term "Homo Deus" to refer to the species which creates and uses tools not only to live in its environment but to tap on its being and becoming — extending its life expectancy, altering biological compositions in the pursuit of well-being and happiness, navigating even the outer space, and other infinite explorations and creations that the emerging "god-like" human intelligence can reach.
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