'Smaller brains, hunched backs': Shocking details of how humans might look in 3025
Produced by: Mohsin Shaikh
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Evolving Mystery
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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Shrinking Heights
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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Attractive Future
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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Unified Diversity
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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Tech Evolution
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.
Smaller Brains
Professor Robert Brooks of UNSW theorizes that as technology assumes cognitive tasks, human brains may shrink, similar to domesticated animals like sheep and dogs.
Space Adaptations
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.
Digital Deformities
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.
Cosmic Speciation
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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