Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

The term “posthuman” is gaining a certain cachet. There is, for instance, Francis Fukuyama’s recent book, Our Posthuman Future, and now Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution gives further currency to the ...