[Cincinatus' Wife]

Oh boy, these people are really off the rails.

[Lazamataz]

What a freakshow the Global Warming people are.

[Vaquero]

Stupidest thing I ever read. I don’t know where to start. So I won’t. Laughing at the premise is the appropriate answer

[lucky american]

Don’t these”scientists “ realize man has invented boots and coats for cold,wet weather? What ignorance.
This could only be true if the world were suddenly thrust into a nuclear holocaust and everyone lost their memories.

[BroJoeK]

"Matthew Skinner is a paleoanthropologist whose research focuses on the analysis of teeth and bones to answer questions about the growth and development, diet, taxonomy and evolutionary history of living and extinct primates, including fossil hominins.
Specifically, he is interested in taxonomic diversity and evolutionary history of humans and apes, dental tissue development in the present and past, and form/function relationships in the primate skeleton."

"My current research projects include:
• "GRASP Evolution of the human hand: Grasping trees and tools (funded by European Research Council Starting Grant 2014-2019) view here

• "Tooth structure in extant and fossil primates: Examination of the two primary tissues of primate teeth, enamel and dentine to 1) improve our understanding of the processes underlying tooth shape, and 2) use tooth structure to contribute to our understanding of the evolutionary history of humans (including our fossil relatives).
  This research covers the whole period of human evolution and examines fossils from Africa, Europe and Asia. View here.

• "Developmental stress in chimpanzees: Investigating the prevalence and underlying cause of developmental stress in chimpanzees as manifested in their dental tissues. View here.

• "Fossil hominin and hominoid hand use: Comparative investigation of fossil hominin (australopiths to Neandertals) and Miocene hominoid hand remains using morphometric and micro-CT data. This research aims to shed light on locomotor and tool-use behaviours throughout the evolution of the human lineage. With Tracy Kivell (Kent).

• "Functional signals in trabecular and cortical bone structure: A comparative investigation of internal bony morphology of the primate hand to assess variation in joint loading patterns and how this reflects differences in locomotor and manipulative behaviours. With Tracy Kivell (Kent)."

Obviously the good professor has much more spare time on his hands than he needs.

[meatloaf]

If he has a Facebook page, Waterworld has to be on it. I wonder how many times he’s seen it. Must be in double digits.

[Sooth2222]

Most Democrats would need to devolve into fish. How is this a bad thing?

[Mike Darancette]

“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”.

Is this guy part of the 97%? This is settled science.

[Sooth2222]

Obamacare will pay for dolphinoplasty.

[samtheman]

This *scientist* does not have the slightest idea of how evolution works. There would have to be preferential dying for a new characteristic to evolve. How is rising water on planet earth in the 21st century going to promote preferential dying of people with normal toes? I can see how it might promote the growth of companies that specialize in building sea walls, but preferential dying of people with normal toes? Really?

[ETL]

I imagine Liberals will eventually develop very tiny skulls due to diminishing brain size.

[PeteB570]

Sea levels have been on the rise for 20,000 years and we still don’t have webbed feet.

[trebb]

Or, if N Korea and Iran start shooting off nukes all over the place....

[Salamander]

Few things are cuter than a duckling’s feet, so I’ll give them that.

[DungeonMaster]

This would be less nonsense if humans occasionally had babies with webbed feet now. It’s a special kind of stupid that thinks mutation only shows up when needed. Actual mutations are more commonly known as birth defects like Downs Syndrome.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Scientists? Any jerk off the street could make such a statement. Hope this wasn’t a result of a fed grant that used my tax dollars!

[Mister Da]

Nah, this guy is way off base.

The current evolution of the foot is the elongation of the big toe due to increasing wearing of flip-flops. I predict the big toe & the toe next to it (the piggy that stayed home) will grow long & curl to wrap around the flip-flop post to better secure the “shoe” to the foot.

You can’t wear flip-flops with webbed feet. Duh! :)

[Montana_Sam]

Can't make that stuff up, can ya?

If I, the penultimate, logical biologist, can convince you that a randomized system suddenly became self-determining, then I will OWN you. And you will believe any/every dopey thing I come up with. Just ask Prof. Dawkins.

[RightGeek]

Humans could also evolve headlamps if they all have their heads up their butts like this "scientist".

[Blue Collar Christian]

If evolution theory somehow was correct, the humans that didn’t step back from the rising water levels would die and therefor not proliferate.

[amnestynone]

We could also lea
rn to breath underwater.