It’s Evolution: What humanity will look like in the future
The march of time
Thousands of years ago, humanity was a nomadic species, walking the Earth and taking refuge in caves while hunting and gathering berries to survive. We have come a long way since then, but where will we go from here?
50,000 years from now
Newsweek spoke with several experts about how much people will change in 50,000 years, and the results are fascinating, to say the least.
The future of humanity
Jason Hodgson, an anthropologist and evolutionary geneticist at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom, told Newsweek some ideas about how 50 millennia could change the outlook of humanity.
More homogenous
Hodgson affirms that it’s possible that the global population will become more homogenous in the future, with differences in race and body type becoming blurred in an increasingly connected world population.
The beautiful generation
Nick Longrich, a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, tells Newsweek that natural selection could lead to newer generations becoming taller and more beautiful.
DNA editing
That’s not even taking into consideration possible tools we might use in the future to modify and even edit our genes, opening a whole world of options to our bodies and our minds.
Beyond EARTH
The website HowStuffWorks highlights that, in a few millennia from now, humanity will probably have already harnessed the use of pure energy and space colonization.
Today's problems, tomorrow's nightmare?
At the same time, problems such as resource depletion, overpopulation, and climate change put into question how long humanity will continue to exist on Earth.
What's a millenium, anyway?
However, not everyone believes 50,000 years is that much when it comes to human evolution. For instance, there’s the opinion of Thomas Mailund, an associate professor of bioinformatics at Aarhus University in Denmark.
