As a species we have no right to exist. Crocodiles have been around for over 200 million years, sharks, 400 million years. Hominims have manged just 2 million years.

With a global population of nearly 8 billion people, various existential challenges due to  issues such as resource shortage, climate change and the sci-fi prospect of Artificial Intelligence being able to supplant humans as the planet's cleverest thinker, Paleo-Anthropology has never been more relevant. The purpose of this web site is to consider what is it about the nature of Homo Sapiens that makes us so successful and yet so vulnerable to extinction.

• We are empowered by our ability to uncover new knowledge and exploit it through new technologies. But what will happen when A.I. surpasses us in these abilities, and it starts to make the discoveries and invent the technologies. What is the point of a Homo Sapiens?

• How do Homo Sapiens relate to nature? People seem to consider the natural world as being something different to the human world.  Perhaps it is our 'self awareness' that causes this distinction to be made, in which case when and how did this awareness come into being?