10.22.06
Mankind’s future
Check out this article at the bbc talking about how the human species (in a couple thousand years) will homogenize and then eventually divide into two distinct lines: the haves and have nots. Now I dont think humans will have receding chins (b/c we will not have to chew as much) because people like to eat. Look at modern day america. Eat, eat, eat– and probably a couple things in between. If modern medicine can discover the secret of weight gain, eating could be a very common time killer(its does exercise a few muscles in the body).
I read a couple posts/articles referencing this guys work. One site stated this meshing doesnt make sense b/c genetics preserves diversity. In other words, the parents contains genes, and thus the children will get some possible combination of these genes. So it may be true, that the middle percentile may converge more, there should still be a great deal of diversity in the world. I read somewhere long ago (I think in the book The Mating Mind) that intra-racial differences and genetic diversity are far greater than inter-racial ones.
Anyways, the article did also have an interesting thought on the role of technology in our future.
Social skills, such as communicating and interacting with others, could be lost, along with emotions such as love, sympathy, trust and respect. People would become less able to care for others, or perform in teams.