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Webbed Feet, Cat's Eyes and Gills: How Humans Could Evolve [trunc](Global Warming)
Daily Mail ^ | January 13, 2016 00:13 UTC | Colin Fernandez

Posted on 01/12/2016 7:13:53 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists

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 'water world' 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.

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 - such as webbed feet and hands becoming widespread - could take place very quickly as some humans already have a genetic mutation that produces webbing.

Other changes to allow humans to live in extreme conditions might only take place over hundreds of generations of natural selection, or require genetic engineering.

He said: 'We could genetically engineer ourselves if important enough to survive. Some of these things we might try to develop as a necessity rather than occurring over time naturally. Others could occur over tens of thousands of years.'

To adapt to a 'water world', Dr Skinner expects humans would develop webbed hands and eyes like those of cats to help us see in the poor lighting conditions underwater.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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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

1 posted on 01/12/2016 7:13:54 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

The most sincere and esteemed of British news outlets are so educational and enlightening.

[Familyop musters a deadpan expression]


2 posted on 01/12/2016 7:17:35 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Others could occur over tens of thousands of years.'

But Al Gore said Global Warming would kill us all in 10 years maybe. And that was 10 years ago. We don't have tens of thousands of years. The seas will rise long before we get webbed feet. /s

3 posted on 01/12/2016 7:20:34 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Up Yours Marxists

This “science” brought to you courtesy of WaterWorld.

AGW meets exactly zero criteria for a Scientific Theory.


4 posted on 01/12/2016 7:21:46 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

The “warmers” are pushing hard. Al Gore’s predictions are bombing, and the Democrats are going to lose their place in the Sun this year, so their BS is coming fast, and furious now.


5 posted on 01/12/2016 7:22:07 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Real humans modify their environment.


6 posted on 01/12/2016 7:23:09 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Such drastic structural changes would necessarily take place over generations of time. The only way this process could be sped up would be via capricous calamity, such as a dirty bomb, or if certain deliberate alterations to the body became fashionable and compulsive.


7 posted on 01/12/2016 7:39:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Up Yours Marxists

As my dear, departed Uncle Roy used to say, “If a bullfrog had wings, he wouldn’t bump his fanny when he hopped!”

And that, my fellow Freepers, makes more sense than all of these ‘scientific’ prognostications about possible events 50 or 100 years from now.


8 posted on 01/12/2016 7:40:14 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: rockinqsranch

I’m hoping this prediction comes true. Always had the hots for redhead mermaids ever since I was a wee little tike.


9 posted on 01/12/2016 7:42:34 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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There is no need to evolve the old fashioned way as long as we have tech to A: move to more comfortable locales, B: modify our environment and/or C: build devices to help us adapt to what we can't change.
And if we really must change our form, genetic modification can do it much faster.
And once we can do that, why not learn to live in vacuum and leave the Earth behind?

10 posted on 01/12/2016 7:45:15 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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in response to changing environments

Clearly they're ratcheting it up because they're losing...

11 posted on 01/12/2016 7:45:52 PM PST by IncPen (There is not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Dr. Skinner has been watching a certain bad movie way too much.


12 posted on 01/12/2016 7:46:24 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (We The People...are pissed.)
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Real humans modify their environment.

Well, yes. I mean, why evolve wheels when you can buy them? No, if we are to be subject to natural selection, we will evolve those characteristics advantageous for breeding. I have a couple of improvements in mind...

13 posted on 01/12/2016 7:50:29 PM PST by Billthedrill
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British teeth photo: British Teeth British_zpsv5uxdhmw.png

No mention of the Brits evolving better teeth.

14 posted on 01/12/2016 7:54:41 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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[[Webbed Feet, Cat’s Eyes and Gills: How Humans Could Evolve [trunc](Global Warming)]]

Sounds to me like those pushing this nonsense are DEVOLVING into dumb as rocks troglodytes


15 posted on 01/12/2016 8:03:28 PM PST by Bob434
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I got to say it this sounds like a pretend scenario in a D@D like roleplaying game played by 12 and 13 year olds...


16 posted on 01/12/2016 8:08:07 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Up Yours Marxists

pretty unlikely, modern humans have handled much bigger changes without much modification.


17 posted on 01/12/2016 8:45:43 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Interesting, but based on a silly scenario.


18 posted on 01/12/2016 9:07:26 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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19 posted on 01/12/2016 9:08:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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A ‘scientist’ said it, so it must be true.

/s


20 posted on 01/12/2016 9:31:43 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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