[Up Yours Marxists]

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Webbed feet, cat's eyes and gills: How humans could evolve to have to deal with a 'water world' due to global warming or a second ice age

[Polyxene]

Too late — it has already happened — just look at all the RAT-NAG-HAG womyn.

[GOPJ]

And warts too... did the fear monger forget to mention warts?

[colorado tanker]

The author is a little behind. The creature already exists:

[bert]

I remember a similar article in Playboy back in the 70’s. BTW, those of us that read the articles did gain some worthwhile knowledge.

The concept is extrapolation of some trend of environmental change to the extreme. The Playboy piece extrapolated human features subject to the Los Angeles perpetual air pollution.

The features I remember were enlarged noses with filters and increased lung capacity to absorb oxygen

The conceptualizing is not prediction so much as extending a hypothesis to the extreme.