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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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.
I dated a girl with webbed feet....................1972.................
Well, then I guess we won’t go extinct.
No worry.
Cats have gills? Who knew?
More “experts”.
Lysenko lives!
One wonders what sort of competition pressure induced this.
I am SOOO stealing that!
I've been using "overeducated morons/dummies/fools" but yours is better.
Feel free! I can't remember where/when I first heard it, but I've been using it for years.
“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.
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.
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
“‘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.
“All my life, I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s... she’s a fish.”
It could happen, I mean Algore devolved into an ignorant sloth.
Satire....right?
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!!!
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