Phelan: How We Evolve

In Benjamin Phelan's article "How We Evolve," he carefully explains the self-centeredness that humans portray. He believes that as a whole, human beings will soon be extinct because we will be unable to adapt to the drastic change in our environment and the change in climate. The article explains the many different adaptations that humans have gone through throughout time. For instance we have evolved mentally and physically and because of these evolutions we have been able to adapt to our new surroundings and become highly knowledgeable about them. The debate that goes on between scientist and researchers is whether or not it was the science of evolution or some sort of higher power that put us on Earth. Because Phelan believes humans are self-centered we lack the proper mentality to think ahead about what we are doing now and how those actions will effect future generations.