Sgt Rick Whitmire posted a wonderful little snippet of the : Ten Best Science Stories" of 2025. He said to use your "slack time" ...well, I have tons of that.
One of the stories made me terribly sad...and it isn't Science driving that one, it is Politics and Beliefs. So I shall let that one rest.
There is another about a fourth player in Early Human developments, to go along with Cro-Magnon, Neanderthals, The hobbits. The Denisovans. And that one intrigued me.
Why?
Because in most cases, our lives are really to short to see changes. We have the same challenge with noticing Evolution, as we do with really big, or really small numbers. Oh sure, we bandy about words like: Infinity -as the really really biggest and the "Planck Length" as the really really smallest - numbers. But we can't comprehend them.
Even the Wizard, Nerds, and Eggheads that play with those concepts for their Profession, well, they have to keep trying to make some analogies, or metaphors, or comparisons...because, well, it is just beyond ordinary comprehension.
So a simple fact escapes most of us. Ready? Evolution is not static. It is still going on. We may not be here in another million years...as the record shows...life is more likely to change, rather than to go lumbering along without any changes. Turtles, alligators...filled the niche just fine. No need for change. But all their cousins thought the same thing too. And poof.
Will we go the Poof route? Or will we evolve. Well, our teeth, little fingers, and some assorted neural connections seem to be tweaking themselves just in recorded history. Personally, I think we shall become a Hybrid sort of Cyborg with a biological component...and an electronic chip, or maybe (eventually) a biological one.
In the end tho...I am leaning into a completely new species developing that may even switch to silicon and leave fast food behind. LOL

I will post in a minute about the Number One Real Time affect of that Top Ten list I actually see my friends buying into, hook, line, and sinker.
AI as friends.