Human race will 'split into two different species'

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10/25/2007 | NIALL FIRTH

[prisoner6]

Human race will 'split into two different species'

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

100,000 years into the future, sexual selection will mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.

The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.

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prisoner6

[Inverse]

Wow they can see 1000 years into the future!!!

Maybe if they could they would realize that by then technology and genetics will have progressed to the point where everyone will look like they want to look.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I would speculate that 100,000 years from now, if mankind exists, humans will have left the organic body and synthesized into an artificial form. This new man would be able to live indefinitely and operate in harsh environments, like undersea or space, without bulky life-support systems. He would have the same intellect and soul but it would have been transfered from flesh to electronics.

[A Navy Vet]

"... attractive, intelligent ruling elite..."

This is news? I'm already there.

[Hornitos]

The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.

Ah, the comedic permutations are endless. Hopefully we'll read some comedy related to the hubris of the "theorist."

[CBF]

Orlaks and Morlaks right?

[Junior_G]

Science Fiction nonsense. This guy should write a novel and be done with it.

[MarineBrat]

26 responses and nary a picture of Helen Thomas? Freepers.... tsk tsk!

[CarrotAndStick]

In fact, the world will change uncalculably within 50 years, or as soon as someone creates a human equivalent AI.

A friend once joked, maybe the computers have already gotten there; they're just lying low and acting stupid... for now.

:^)

[Berlin_Freeper]

[highlander_UW]

I think it’s more likely going to be the Morlock Democrats eating the Eloi Republicans.

[Manic_Episode]

"The human race will one day split into two separate..."

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Matthew 13:49
This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

Matthew 25:32
All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

[AZLiberty]

With as much plastic surgery as goes on now, natural selection by beauty doesn’t have a chance. The next generation of children will look so little like their parents that — until their own surgery — they’ll think they were adopted.

[valkyry1]

How does a race become separate species? Seems like the scientist is not to clear on a few concepts.

Anyway, it reminds me of the original movie based on the H. G. Wells novel ‘The Time Machine’

[Jan Hus]

Isch Kabibble!

[valkyry1]

as soon as someone creates a human equivalent AI

Is this subtle joking or sarcasm?

[ari-freedom]

real science sticks with what we can see and measure today and not speculate about what might have happened thousands and millions of years in the unobserved past or what might happen thousands and millions of years in the unknown future.

[ari-freedom]

and everyone will eat the vegans

[haroldeveryman]

Stop the world I want to get off!

[Vanders9]

LOL

[ari-freedom]

Conservatives, on the other hand, will be ugly
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ok this is junk science. Time for some scientific evidence