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Human Species May Split In Two

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-we-don't-destroy-ourselves-first dept.

gEvil (beta) writes "According to an article at the BBC, an evolutionary theorist in London suggests that humanity may split into two sub-species within the next 100,000 years. From the article: 'The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.'" No missing link here, we already have the troll-like humans to prove it.

17 of 1,000 comments (clear)

  1. So to be clear... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Half of us will be Swedish, and the other half will be British?

    1. Re:So to be clear... by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

      Half of us will be Swedish, and the other half will be British?

      Yes and the Brits will make revolting sausages out of the Swedes and eat them with bacon and eggs.

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    2. Re:So to be clear... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Somebody tag this as Old News, please! H.G. Wells made a very similar prediction more than a century ago.

    3. Re:So to be clear... by colonslashslash · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm British, but that was fucking hilarious. Mod up haha.

      I, for one, welcome our futuristic tall, slim, attractive, intelligent and creative sauna loving meatball munching copyright infringing swashbuckling pirate blonde overlords. May death come quickly to their enemies. Yaaaaar!

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    4. Re:So to be clear... by pilgrim23 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know! lets call one group Eloi and the other...oh...say Morlocks!
      after all...you are who you eat...

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    5. Re:So to be clear... by ehrichweiss · · Score: 5, Funny

      The smart, beautiful and creative ones?

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  2. Good timing... by Arathon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess we should all be happy we came along now. Better to be dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures while it's still politically incorrect to call us such.

  3. wait, that sounds familiar.. by sam_paris · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mac users and PC users You work out which is which..

  4. Fox by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, it's only Fox New's fault if Republicans and Democrats entirely stop cross-breeding!

    (You can't call it a troll if I don't say which one becomes the upper class :p)

    1. Re:Fox by slughead · · Score: 5, Funny

      (You can't call it a troll if I don't say which one becomes the upper class :p)

      Sure I can! I'm libertarian, you insensitive clod!

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  5. Umm... by M0bius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Musicians are proof of how untrue this theory is because they show time and again that the hottest of ladies will sleep with the ugliest of guys as long as they can play a guitar, normalizing the gene pool.

  6. Re:Stereotypical Predictions from Dr. Curry ... by dumdeedum · · Score: 5, Funny

    First he expects smart people to be beautiful (or the converse) and now he expects large boobs to be pert?

    Hush up, you. They may have taken away our dreams of flying cars and houses on the Moon, but breasts that are both large and pert is a future worth fighting for!

  7. Contraception by justin12345 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given that contraception is the real barrier to procreation these days, I guess women will evolve to be forgetful (namely in forgetting to their pill), and men will evolve to be impulsive or stupid (too impulsive to use a condom, or too stupid to use one properly).

    Wait....

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  8. Wasn't this... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wasn't this an original Star Trek episode. The Cloud Minders, if memory serves.

    And IIRC, some of them (her) wasn't ugly at all!

    Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Each new race might find themselves quite attractive.

    (Slashdot Rule #17: Any post mentioning Star Trek the original series is to automatically be modded Insightful.)

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  9. Re:Bush Family Trees by Venik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Din't do a very good job, now did he? As they say, eugenics starts at home.

  10. Re:Bush Family Trees by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 5, Funny

    George Bush Jr's grandfather Prescott Bush ... Prescott's law partner Tighe ... Connecticut (Bush family home state) ... Prescott's boss Averell Harriman

    "I...am your father's...father's...law partner's...and home state's...and boss's...ad hominem."
    "So what does that make us?"
    "Absolutely nothing. Which is what your argument means!"

  11. Re:On a serious note, .... by laejoh · · Score: 5, Funny

    For one thing, they don't have the access to birth control that allows the rich and middle classes to have unlimited sex (without barrier-style birth control methods like condoms, crevical caps, and diaphrams) without pregnancies.

    What's this unlimited sex you're talking about?