What will humans look like in 50 million years?
Posted by staff / November 24, 2010
If by some miracle humans manage to avoid wiping each other out in the next 50 million years, how would the humble homo sapiens evolve? Anyone else hoping for wings, impossibly long legs, and no more body hair? No? Moving on…
An io9 reader dug up a 1982 issue of Omni magazine in which zoologist Dougal Dixon theorizes about what humans of the future might look like. Dixon’s vision looks a bit like a rejected Star Wars character with the psychic powers of Miss Cleo. Hey, at least it looks like that hairless thing worked out.
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What kind of environmental conditions would favour something that looks like that? The internal organs look almost completely exposed and neither of the examples look like they could support their own weight to stand up and balance. Also, why does the fat one have no legs but huge arms. Would humans just roll around or drag itself to move? The article says they would teleport but that seems way too sci-fi to be realistic and more of an easy way to explain the ridiculous anatomy.
This is completely hideous. The temperature after 50 million years from now will eventually rise up since the Sun will be preparing for its early pre-Red Giant state, so the activity of Sun’s radiation will also rise up slightly. Not only future humans will be capable to defeat easily the problem of harmful radiation phenomenon, but they will also provide themselves more closer to unharmful sunrays so they can absorb vitamin D which is the main factor for the increase of bone density. The human will finally evolve from frail to muscular and thick-boned creatures with higher mass, but perhaps with lower longevity. The presantation above is wrong in my opinion for the reasonable factors I typed above that setence.