The improvement of technology, its reutilization and the social dimension are the key elements which define humans. Thousands of years have passed since evolutionary logic displaced randomness as the driving force for changes in our species. Natural Selection has been replaced with Cultural and Technological Selection.

Spanning three million years, human evolution offers an abundance of clues and behavioural patterns for reflecting on the prospective development of our species.

New scientific discoveries should not only lead to the development of prospective applications addressing the great evolutionary challenges of our species, but also to a rational and socialized organization of knowledge.

This process offers not only new spaces for knowledge exchanging but also an enhanced debate about the organization and structure of our development.

Studying the history of techniques, tools and human organizations as well as understanding their evolutionary processes in relation to the environment form a corpus of unprecedented knowledge whose potential and applications still remain to be explored.

Unlike other prospective tools that are rooted in social sciences, the IPHES firmly champions the scientific value of analysing evolutionary change in our species. This knowledge represents the best starting point to tackle the new changes which Humanity faces.