# What Will Evolution Make of Life in a Hundred Thousand Years by Jonathan B. Losos
> “How will evolution shape the biological world one hundred years from now, or one hundred thousand?”
> **— Jonathan B. Losos**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question*
## Sources and Context
- **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Jonathan B. Losos](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27635) — Jonathan B. Losos's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question.
- **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-109).
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