How Evolution May Change Us 100,000 Years From Now
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All life on earth is constantly evolving: the process doesn’t stop. As living things, humans are still evolving. Since we became Homo sapiens, has evolution changed us in any way? Actually, yes. Thousands of genes have evolved recently (in the last 40,000 years). Changes we are seeing include smaller brains (more efficient, not dumber), resistance to…
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Hmm, the title led me to expect some actual predictions…
Artificial selection and gene manipulation are inevitable, but will anyone bet that the bulk of artificial insertion and deletion and alteration of our DNA will be to make us taller and thinner with more of certain secondary sexual characteristics, rather than smarter? I’ve got $50 bucks here. 🙂