Posted on 01/13/2016 6:32:21 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Humans may evolve bizarre features such as webbed feet and eyes like cats in response to changing environments, a scientist claims today. Experts calculated how our physical appearance could change under a number of scenarios, including a âwater worldâ if melting ice caps cause rising sea levels. They also considered what would happen in a second ice age which could be triggered by an asteroid strike, and if humans colonised other planets. Experts calculated how our physical appearance could change under a number of scenarios, including a âwater worldâ if melting ice caps cause rising sea levels. They also considered what would happen in a second ice age. These artistâs impressions show how women may evolve to develop webbed feet and hands and catâs eyes
Experts calculated how our physical appearance could change under a number of scenarios, including a âwater worldâ if melting ice caps cause rising sea levels. They also considered what would happen in a second ice age. These artistâs impressions show how women may evolve to develop webbed feet and hands and catâs eyes. Dr Matthew Skinner, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Kent, examined the three scenarios and worked with artist Quentin Devine to help visualise how humans could look in the future.
Dr Skinner said some changes â such as webbed feet and hands becoming widespread â could take place very quickly as some humans already have a genetic mutation that produces webbing...
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Wow! Good stuff! Do you have a link!
Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper be da men, for Waterworld.
Surfing and sailing everyday. Tuna fishing for dinner.
What lives. Everywhere be like Hawaii.
(But walking on land with those permanent flippers is a bitch)
According to the Independent (UK):
IVF: First genetically-modified human embryos ‘could be created in Britain within weeks’
(U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare)
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