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What Humans Will Look Like in 100,000 Years
- Someone 13y agoFluff piece. You can make up a story for almost any change you envision. Good articles would think such stories through; this does not sufficiently do so (but of course, its conclusion would then be "we don't know") For example, larger heads would eliminate all natural births, require changes to the female anatomy to let those heads pass the birth canal, or require huge changes to the way heads develop after birth. A serious attempt at predicting the future should have addressed this. Similarly, why have so much bigger eyes that look like bieng in risk of dropping out of their sockets if we can fit cameras directly after birth? In 100 millennia, I would expect such cameras to be superior to natural eyes in every aspect, including the current main stumbling block light sensitivity range. And of course, if we will conquer space, one can argue that legs would either atrophy or become additional hands.