Is This What Humans Will Look Like in 100,000 Years From Now?

MessageToEagle.com – Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago and underwent many significant changes like behavior and appearance, during this long and dramatic period of time.

We do not know what events will happen in the future and how the future technologies may affect the way we evolve, but we have our predictions, of which some are more scientifically based than others.

Predicting what we will be or what we will look like in the future is fascinating and has been the domain of science fiction writers for centuries.

In our previous article, we presented zoologist Douglas Dixon’s view on what will we look like after 50-million years of evolution. His theory was based on the use of genetic engineering and space travel.

However, others also have their own visions of how we, humans, might evolve in thousands and even millions of years’ time, assuming that our species will survive threats from space and we will not wipe out its own race.

Dr. Alan Kwan who has a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University, proposes interesting aspects of future human evolution.

Basically, Dr Kwan believes that human will have larger brains and eyes.
“As our understanding of the universe increases, I predict that the human head will trend larger to accommodate a larger brain. But instead of some orthogonal evolutionary path that ends up with the 210th century human a la Futurama’s Morbo the anchor-alien, the rule of viable human biology will still apply and so the entire head will trend larger, though with a bias for a greater cranium growth than facial growth; the human 20,000 years from now would look to us like someone today except we would notice the forehead is subtly too large,” says Dr. Kwan.

He points out that “while evolution in space is only beginning to be explored today, I would hazard a guess that millennia of human space colonization of Earth-orbit and other solar system space colonies will also select for…

1. Larger eyes in response to the dimmer environment of colonies further from the Sun than Earth.

2. More pigmented skin to alleviate the damaging impact of much more harmful UV radiation outside of the Earth’s protective ozone.

3. Thicker eyelids or a more pronounced superciliary arch to alleviate the effects low or no gravity that disrupt and disorient the eyesight of today’s astronauts on the ISS.

By this point in time, communications lenses (commlens) in contacts and miniature bone-conduction devices implanted above the ear will work in tandem. Bone-conduction devices, with embedded nanochips, will communicate with some external device for communications and entertainment.

This human face will be heavily biased towards features that humans find fundamentally appealing: strong, regal lines, straight nose, intense eyes, and placement of facial features that adhere to the golden ratio and left/right perfect symmetry. Functional bias will be incorporated into the vanity driven constraints above.

Eyes would seem unnervingly large to us and have “eye shine” from the tapetum lucidum. Sideways blink of the reintroduced plica semilunaris to further protect from cosmic ray effects would be particularly startling.

All images Nickolay Lamm.

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