Posted on 11/21/2009 12:27:39 PM PST by JoeProBono
The past of human evolution is more and more coming to light as scientists uncover a trove of fossils and genetic knowledge. But where might the future of human evolution go? There are plenty of signs that humans are still evolving.
However, whether humans develop along the lines portrayed by hackneyed science fiction is doubtful.
Clichés dashed
An old cliché has the highly evolved humans of the future sporting large heads to hold their advanced enlarged brains, "but that's nonsense, whole nonsense," said paleontologist Peter Ward at the University of Washington at Seattle, author of "Future Evolution." "If you've ever gone through a childbirth or witnessed one," Ward says, "we're already anatomically right on the edge of how big our heads can go our big brains have already caused extreme problems in childbirth, and if we had bigger and bigger brains, that'd cause more mothers to die in childbirth, so evolution would select against that......."
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
The Eloi were all liberals. Sitting around all day, eating fruits and nuts they didn't grow, F#$%ing like rabbits and enjoying their lazy, idyllic existence of not knowing that they were cattle and being fed upon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZldlyeR8DU
yep and we stay alive presently via hanging on to personal freedom.
“If we ever move beyond this planet”
We’ll have to leave when the taxes are too high to stay here.
Of course the article leaves out the possibility of politically-motivated evolution.
I envision (in my worst nightmares) something like a cross between 1984 and Brave New World in which the Socialist Masters genetically engineer themselves upwards while keeping their slave-societies stupid, weak and short-lived, through control of the media, education and medicine.
The price for Utopia can never be too high, can it?
Throw 90% of the incumbent out! And show up in D.C. on the day of the State of the Union Address in January for a massive protest by We, the People!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0AW9Mn1Fc
That’s the direction a certain set of our current pop wants to take the rest of us in cultural “evolution” at least.
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