Right in Two

With some over-priced but tasty yellow curry, I was having a discussion about an article I had read last week about the human species splitting in two.

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.

Yes, yes, because there is no such thing as an intelligent male wanting to plant his seed into a dumb blond super-model. It sounded like some major BS to me. For one thing, it doesn't take into account hyper-space travel and interbreeding with aliens. It is also a classic example of the type of research results found by upper class twits who feel self important and totally lack intelligence and creativity but are too dim-witted to realize this.

As it turns out, this piece of research was commissioned by men's television channel Bravo. It has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal and has met with multiple professional challenges.

Some people would probably argue that we simply cannot predict what the course of human evolution will be like thousands of years from now. The possible range of events is so great, ranging from genetic engineering to environmental catastrophe to space colonization, that any guess will certainly be wrong.

But that does not mean that all guesses will be equally wrong. Some of them will be more wrong than others -- the "world is flat" kind of wrong. Some will be, well, spectacularly wrong.

Here's my non-peer-reviewed prediction. The human species will shoot off in all sorts of weird directions as we meet other life forms and experiment with genetic manipulation, cybernetic modification, and the effects of adapting to zero gravity. Regardless, the human species as a whole will retain much the same appearance as now, just as it has for the last few millennia. Except for the freaks and weirdos, who will just keep getting weirder. Oh, and people will eventually figure out that polo shirts make you look dumb and ugly... I hope.