Produced by: Mohsin Shaikh
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Human evolution is far from over, with scientists suggesting we're just at the beginning of transformative changes influenced by technology, climate, and space exploration.
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Future humans might become shorter due to early sexual maturation, a trade-off for increased fecundity, as explained by Professor Mark Thomas, evolutionary geneticist at UCL.
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Selective pressures from female partner choice could lead to a more attractive human population, with traits like intelligence, success, and appearance becoming dominant.
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Dr. Jason Hodgson, bioinformatics expert, predicts interracial unions will increase, making future humans more uniform in appearance with traits resembling people from Mauritius or Brazil.
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CRISPR and gene editing may allow humans to actively design traits, from intelligence to immunity, leading to rapid genetic shifts that redefine natural evolution in a single generation.
Professor Robert Brooks of UNSW theorizes that as technology assumes cognitive tasks, human brains may shrink, similar to domesticated animals like sheep and dogs.
Humans on Mars or distant planets could evolve taller bodies, larger eyes, and lighter skin to adapt to low gravity and dim sunlight, resembling a new species.
Non-genetic changes like hunched backs, claw-like hands, and chronic ailments may arise due to prolonged tech use, as predicted by sleep expert Dr. Sophie Bostock.
Another researcher Dr. John Hawks suggests isolated space-faring populations could eventually diverge so drastically from Earth humans that they might become an entirely new species.
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