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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So there will be "coffee-coloured" people but two races?
Huh?
I think that he's a few ganglions short of a full brain.
Pretty standard stuff--the rich should be/are afraid of the poor.
Margaret Sanger had a cure for this: abortion. I wonder how many abortion clinics are located in wealthy neighborhoods?
Bull. Rich people have intermarried and had children with poor people from day one. Hell, slave owners and slaves had children. The idea that people from different classes eventually won't get together is insane.
A while back, Habitat for Humanity was accepting partly-empty cans of paint and an employee decided to mix a lot of the cans together; to their surprise, no matter what proportions they used as long as each primary color was included in the mix, the resultant color was a muddy grey.
As it was unattractive, most people painted over it after application.
It was an allegory, not a blueprint.
I was too busy looking at her, uh, sweater to notice her skin at all.
Hybrid vigor doesn't apply to paint...
Where did white people come from?
Those are some nice...I mean that is a nice sweater.
That would explain where democrats are going.
So......those with stronger jaws would have less survivability and die out ---why? In the competition for yogurt and smoothies because they keep bitng their tongues and suffering fatal injuries????
I swear, 98% of the evolutionists don't have a minimal understanding of evolution. The moron has a doctorate. Think about it.
A 100 years if the eugenicists have their way...
"The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry."
~ H.G. Wells
Of course you believe that.
You're almost halfway "there".
And maybe someday all those things will come to pass.
But it will miss you.
You may be in the last generation that has to die.
But you're in it.
I've noticed that Georgia Tech has a lot of short people.
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