X LAB Human Evolution Research Agenda: From Ten Millennium Questions to Seventy-One Key Questions

Bilingual release: Full English and Chinese editions are provided as PDF and DOCX, with a shared version, identifiers and DOI. The English PDF is the main reading file. The machine-readable JSON includes English question wording and theme summaries alongside the original Chinese fields.

Scope: Human evolution is used broadly to include cognitive and capability development, technology, social organization and civilizational change, as well as biological evolution. These processes are distinguished; evolution does not by itself imply moral progress.

This research agenda presents a three-level framework for long-term inquiry into human evolution: ten millennium questions, twenty-four contemporary themes, and seventy-one scientific, engineering, normative, and mixed research questions. It defines an open, versioned system for accumulating evidence, testing claims, enabling independent review, and producing transparent, citable outputs.

The document is a research agenda and methodological framework, not a set of empirical conclusions to the seventy-one questions.

Institutional relationship: X LAB Human Evolution Laboratory is a research platform supported by Younion Global Limited.

Competing interests: The author developed and maintains this research agenda. Younion Global Limited may participate in the future translation and commercialization of related research outputs. This institutional relationship and potential commercial interest are disclosed for transparency. The relationship did not restrict the development, interpretation, or public release of this research agenda. The author declares no other known financial or non-financial competing interests.

Funding: This research agenda was supported by internal resources provided by the author and Younion Global Limited. No specific external funding was received.

AI assistance: OpenAI ChatGPT was used to assist with information organization, structural refinement, language editing, and document production. The research questions, conceptual framework, substantive judgments and final text are subject to the author's review and responsibility. The AI tool is not listed as an author. ChatGPT also assisted with preparing and checking the English translation.

Canonical source commit: 66967facae795fcad44a6e471d2f2e59d7133630; source file: src/lib/research-agenda.ts. Version 1.1 expands living-systems research; it contains research questions, not validated empirical findings.