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Human race will 'split into two different species'
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10/25/2007 | NIALL FIRTH

Posted on 10/25/2007 11:09:01 PM PDT by 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.

Go to the link in the header/excerpt for more, or the link in the comment for a more complete story.

prisoner6

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: evolution; godsgravesglyphs; hgwells; homan; kurzweil; race; singularity; species; thetimemachine
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To: prisoner6

“...evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics...”

An evolutionary THEORIST, based at LSE?

He must be doing prep work for his next book...


41 posted on 10/26/2007 12:21:48 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Manic_Episode
The late Keith Green:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7lZc8XgBc

Well worth watching. ;)
42 posted on 10/26/2007 12:26:08 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: prisoner6

I saw this movie.


43 posted on 10/26/2007 12:32:32 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: prisoner6
This is what give scientist a bad name.

Just about anything could happen in the next 100 years to change things beyond anyones imagination much less a thousand years...

Designer children, probably.

Gene filtering, probably.

Replacement parts, probably.

A serious dent in the aging process, probably.

What else? Who knows... And this "scientist" guess isn't likely much better than anyone else's guess.

44 posted on 10/26/2007 12:32:46 AM PDT by DB
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To: prisoner6
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.

The top scientist is apparently still living in the early 1900s. The human race has always been able, through technology, to sidestep many evolutionary pressures altogether, and as our technology grows, evolutionary pressures become increasingly irrelevant for us. Genomic research, biotech advances, nanotechnology - all will allow humans to determine their own development.
45 posted on 10/26/2007 12:36:12 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: prisoner6

But what will cause it, President Bush or Global Warming?


46 posted on 10/26/2007 12:40:37 AM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Christ's Kingdom on Earth is the answer. What is your question?)
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To: mkjessup

Thank you. Keith was great.


47 posted on 10/26/2007 12:43:25 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: kbingham

You’re assuming AI is possible.

Big assumption.


48 posted on 10/26/2007 12:50:40 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: prisoner6

CINDY SHEEHAN!


49 posted on 10/26/2007 12:57:53 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Looks like McD's will be a much more important factor in determining development.
50 posted on 10/26/2007 1:05:36 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
AlGore can blame it on Global Warming - caused by W - and then make a new movie warning of the coming split in the human race. EVERYBODY PANIC!

prisoner6

51 posted on 10/26/2007 1:06:06 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: prisoner6
It will be as it always has been. The armed and the slaves. The prepared and the naive. The strong and the weak. The rememberer’s of history, and the repeaters. Man hasn’t really changed in thousands of years. He just forgets and must be reminded.
52 posted on 10/26/2007 1:23:05 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: ari-freedom

"In other news, the Michelin Man denied all accusations in a paternity suit brought by a twenty-six year old woman who said she had a torrid affair with the tire magnate and bore him two young boys..."

55 posted on 10/26/2007 1:42:18 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (From Slick Willie to Slick Hill'y in Eight Years?!)
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To: Sixth_Amendment

conservative women are usually not the hottest but are much more pleasant to be around with


56 posted on 10/26/2007 1:53:44 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Or worse yet- a race of Helen Thomases.

Humanity is doomed. Only a Jackass would mate with a monster like that!


57 posted on 10/26/2007 1:57:29 AM PDT by 60Gunner (ER Nursing: running with scissors and playing with sharp objects- ain't America great?.)
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To: mkjessup

Ya-HOOOOOOO! Well said, brother! Thank you so much for reminding me about who REALLY is in control!

Thank God for His grace that saved a wretched man such as me!


58 posted on 10/26/2007 2:00:19 AM PDT by 60Gunner (ER Nursing: running with scissors and playing with sharp objects- ain't America great?.)
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To: highlander_UW

Does your name suggest that you are somehow affiliated with the University of Washington?

If so, pity that. I mean, Washington had a football team? Who knew!?


59 posted on 10/26/2007 2:04:38 AM PDT by 60Gunner (ER Nursing: running with scissors and playing with sharp objects- ain't America great?.)
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To: Inverse
Close...I think, just my opinion of course, that what this is saying is that everyone will look like someone else thinks they should look. An end to random genetic combinations.

Can't do much after they pop out of whatever is being used as a "growth chamber"(womb)...:)

60 posted on 10/26/2007 2:21:42 AM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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