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‘Global warming’ could cause humans to develop webbed feet, cat’s eyes and gills
Climate Depot ^ | Marc Morano | January 13, 2016

Posted on 01/13/2016 6:32:21 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski

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. 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. These artist’s impressions show how women may evolve to develop webbed feet and hands and cat’s eyes

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. These artist’s impressions show how women may evolve to develop webbed feet and hands and cat’s eyes. 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...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: anthropogenic; global; gorebullwarming; warming
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To: Jan_Sobieski

And where do the “experts” think this additional DNA is going to magically come from? Natural Selection only results in variations around a genetic mean with existing DNA.


21 posted on 01/13/2016 7:07:52 AM PST by mikeus_maximus
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To: Ditter
Everyone needs to go and read the comments after this article. Hilarious!

Read them...yes, very funny!
22 posted on 01/13/2016 7:08:18 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I dated a girl with webbed feet....................1972.................


23 posted on 01/13/2016 7:08:20 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Well, then I guess we won’t go extinct.

No worry.


24 posted on 01/13/2016 7:15:23 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Cats have gills? Who knew?


25 posted on 01/13/2016 7:19:28 AM PST by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

More “experts”.


26 posted on 01/13/2016 7:21:53 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Jan_Sobieski

27 posted on 01/13/2016 7:23:54 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Lysenko lives!


28 posted on 01/13/2016 7:26:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: BeauBo

One wonders what sort of competition pressure induced this.


29 posted on 01/13/2016 7:34:21 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: ShadowAce
...many people are educated beyond their intelligence.\

I am SOOO stealing that!

I've been using "overeducated morons/dummies/fools" but yours is better.

30 posted on 01/13/2016 7:42:07 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
I am SOOO stealing that!

Feel free! I can't remember where/when I first heard it, but I've been using it for years.

31 posted on 01/13/2016 7:51:06 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: going hot

“One wonders what sort of competition pressure induced this.”

I’ll chalk that one up to the freak outlier motivation.

The general population though, will want their kids to be prettier and smarter than the other kids. Tweaking the genes will just be keeping up with the Jones’s.


32 posted on 01/13/2016 7:52:41 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo
Sounds reasonable to think so on the face of it.

Just remember, people in this world have vastly differing ideas of what beauty entails.

To mix sayings, one man's venus is another man's goat.

33 posted on 01/13/2016 7:57:17 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/images/staff/academic/m-skinner.jpg

Dr Matthew Skinner

Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology

Human evolution; dental anthropology; skeletal functional morphology; growth and development of hard tissues
- M.Skinner@kent.ac.uk
- 01227 (82)3937

http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles/profiles/biological-anthropology/academic-staff/skinner_matthew.html


34 posted on 01/13/2016 8:00:21 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Stosh

“‘Global warming’ could cause humans to develop webbed feet, cat’s eyes and gills”

I prefer feathers. I want to be able to fly right into the windmills.


35 posted on 01/13/2016 8:12:39 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz)
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To: Stosh
"...oral..."???
36 posted on 01/13/2016 8:42:53 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“All my life, I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s... she’s a fish.”


37 posted on 01/13/2016 8:44:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jan_Sobieski

It could happen, I mean Algore devolved into an ignorant sloth.


38 posted on 01/13/2016 8:48:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Satire....right?


39 posted on 01/13/2016 8:49:20 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Absolute imbecile!!!

Typical Gorebull wahrumist BS: "may", "could","possibly", "if"...

No "if" about it. Ain't happening , won't happen, CAN'T be caused by a fraction of 40 PPM of CO2!!!

Ain't happening!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Besides...

No "webbed feet" are required to simply walk to higher ground!!!


40 posted on 01/13/2016 8:59:42 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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