Can the human race survive? No, but extinction has many meanings, and evolution has a few tricks up its long sleeve.

“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler,
a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice,
the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some
old blind allegiance to the past, fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

—Loren Eiseley, The Immense Jour...