When the North Carolina legislature voted to prohibit our schools from teaching Evolution, Senator Sam Ervin concluded

“The monkeys in the jungle would undoubtedly be delighted to know that the North Carolina legislature has absolved them from all responsibility for the conduct of the human race in general and that of the North Carolina legislature in particular.”

Today’s NEW YORK TIMES contains an article by Carolyn Y. Johnson entitled WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NEANDERTHALS?

And one on a new way to educate :

An Alpha private school in Austin, Texas. The Alpha network is small but growing rapidly. Its leaders have ambitions for the model to reach one billion students around the world.

By Dana Goldstein

And an earlier related one:

Oct. 23, 2026

Thomas L. Friedman: We Just Set Off the Second Big Bang

All are pertinent comments on what is coming down the pipe via Artificial Intelligence.

In Yuval Harari’s prescient HOMO DEUS he speculates that HOMO SAPIENS will be more like Neanderthals than the next evolving species, HOMO DEUS.