Posted on 10/19/2006 7:10:22 AM PDT by presidio9
HUMANS could evolve into two sub-species within 100,000 years as social divisions produce a genetic underclass.
The mating preferences of the rich, highly educated and well-nourished could ultimately drive their separation into a genetically distinct group that no longer interbreeds with less fortunate human beings, according to British scientist Oliver Curry.
Dr Curry, a research associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the London School of Economics, speculated that privileged humans might over tens of thousands of years evolve into a "gracile" subspecies, tall, thin, symmetrical, intelligent and creative.
The rest would be shorter and stockier, with asymmetric features and lower intelligence, he said.
Dr Curry's vision echoes that of H.G. Wells in The Time Machine. He envisaged a race of frail, privileged beings, the Eloi, living in a ruined city and co-existing uneasily with ape-like Morlocks who toil underground and are descended from the downtrodden workers of today.
Dr Curry also said that the current concept of race would be gone by the year 3000, as relationships between people with different skin colours produce a "coffee-colour" across all populations.
With improvements in nutrition and medicine, people would routinely grow to 6ft 6in and live to the age of 120, he said. Genetic modification, cosmetic surgery and sexual selection - whereby mate preferences drive evolution - meant that people would tend to be better-looking than today.
Otherwise, humans will look much as they do now, with one exception: Dr Curry also suggested that increased reliance on processed food would make chewing less important, possibly resulting in less developed jaws and shorter chins.
Ten thousand years from now, this effect could be compounded as human faces grow more juvenile in appearance. This effect - neotony - is known from domestic animals: dogs resemble young versions of
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I believe it. I've seen the crowd shots of Raider games.
Credential check!
I think it already did: Conservatives and Socialist/Marxists
The Eloi and the Morlocks (Democraps)?
There are already two species of humans.....one is intelligent, walks upright, is attractive and well spoken....the other is what we call, "Liberal".
We already have. They're called "conservatives" and "liberals."
I for one am going the Morlock route mostly for the full body shaggy fur which would most obviously and totally rock.
I was wondering when that pic was going to get posted!
Got designer babies and boutique gene therapy?
This is the madness that logically follows by believing in the misguided theory of evolution.
They already have. Humans and Muslims............
Hasn't this guy seen the Geico commercials?
NASCAR and other .... LOL!
So my increasingly shiny head might be influencing my choice.
I love that pic, it makes my own rug back look pre pubescent! LOL!
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