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Humans could evolve webbed feet if sea levels rise, scientist claims
Telegraph ^
| January 13, 2016
| Sarah Knapton
Posted on 01/12/2016 11:42:04 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The perils of climate change are well known, but rising sea levels could also alter human evolution, scientists have claimed.
Rising sea levels could force communities to live in underwater or semi-aquatic towns which could change out physiology.
Dr Matthew Skinner a paleoanthropologist from the University of Kent, claims that humans could evolve to have webbed hands and feet and less body hair so they could move quickly through the water.
Our eyes would even become more like cats, so we could see in the murky gloom of seas and rivers and our lungs would shrink as we became used to using artificial tanks to breathe underwater.
"Regular underwater foraging would lead to the evolution of longer fingers and toes which would then likely develop 'webbed' interconnecting skin to enable easier swimming," said Dr Skinner.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climatechange; darwiniannitwit; environment; epa; evolution; fearmongering; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; green; junkscience; lyingsacks; matthewskinner; popefrancis; pseudoscience; romancatholicism; unitedkingdom; universityofkent; warmers
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To: Pelham
And you shall all kneel before your queen.
:)
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posted on
01/13/2016 12:41:52 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: Salamander
Yes, and I would like to see your elegant tail.
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posted on
01/13/2016 12:45:56 AM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
People will be born with webbed feet when Ted Cruz is elected President.
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posted on
01/13/2016 12:46:56 AM PST
by
lewislynn
( You know you're a Muslim if everything offends you.)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
01/13/2016 12:54:35 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: Salamander
I don’t need webbing.
My shoe size is 14EEEE.
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posted on
01/13/2016 12:54:41 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Salamander
I already have my elegant tail, for swimming. Adapt or die.
Silly me I spent my youth chasing after beautiful tail, not adapting!
26
posted on
01/13/2016 12:58:49 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Salamander
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posted on
01/13/2016 12:59:11 AM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: shibumi
Tokyo fears a visit from you.
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:02:59 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: Repeal The 17th
It *is* a glorious tail, is it not?
And so smooth, supple and sinuous....
:)
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:04:01 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: Mastador1
Well, that’ll learn ya!
;D
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:04:29 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: Salamander
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:06:43 AM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The last living Lamarckian.
32
posted on
01/13/2016 1:11:35 AM PST
by
pluvmantelo
(They are BORN radical retards!)
To: Salamander
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:16:50 AM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: Salamander
I’ve been working on my purposeful grimace and terrible sound while pulling spitting high tension wires down.
I love hearing the screams of the helpless people on subway trains.
It’s late and I’m bored. Think I’ll pick up a bus and throw it down as I wade through buildings to the center of town.
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:19:44 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
And leftists will have webbed feet from interbreeding with each other.
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:21:06 AM PST
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
When should I start thinking about buying mittens instead of gloves?
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:22:13 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: Repeal The 17th
Gary, Indiana. Early August of ‘47, near as I can figure.
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:23:52 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Hasn’t worked in the bayous... And the. Himalayas will melt by 2035... Smart people.
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posted on
01/13/2016 1:34:54 AM PST
by
momincombatboots
(Iraq 3.0.. Try and look surprised. Prayers for my brothers and sisters in arms as global pawns.)
To: equaviator
Lol!
Maybe a business opportunity.
: )
To: Cincinatus' Wife
And could of finished my journery to stupidity if I didn’t quit college!
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posted on
01/13/2016 2:09:54 AM PST
by
fedupjohn
(America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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