A new study shows what humans will look like a thousand years from now. While the initial results seem pretty positive, with humans predicted to be more beautiful than they are now, some of the changes may shock you.
Evolutionary geneticist Professor Mark Thomas spoke to the Daily Mail about what we should expect from human development over the next thousand years.
The expert initially said that humans could eventually become slightly shorter.
Human height depends on a number of factors, and a study by the University of Oxford found that better diets during times of sustainable food production tended to have an impact on average height.
Professor Thomas said that “one theory among many” had led some experts to hypothesize that shorter people are able to have children earlier, so if more short people have children, they are more likely to have short children.
On the other hand, he said that this theory has not been tested in population studies, so it is uncertain whether this theory will be verified.
Meanwhile, Professor Robert Brooks has suggested that human brains in the future may be smaller, as we will not need to be as smart as computers handle everything, however scary that may seem to some.
There have been studies of animal brain size before and after domestication, which found that the brains of sheep, cows, and dogs became smaller afterwards, so if we are going to become fully domesticated through technology, maybe that will happen.
On the other hand, who could have accurately predicted the changes in the world and society that would occur in the next 1,000 years and the impact they would have on what we would look like?
