// posted October 18, 2006 by Lou Schuler
This reads like the plot of a sci-fi novel, but I have to assume the guy is serious:
Social division might split humans into two sub-species 100,000 years from now, an evolution expert has claimed. The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative.
They would be a far cry from the “underclass” humans, who will have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat, goblin-like creatures.
The forecast was made by Dr. Oliver Curry, who spent two months investigating the ascent and descent of man over the next 100 millennia.
He said, within a thousand years, humans will evolve into coffee-coloured giants between 6 and 7 feet tall. But Dr. Curry said centuries of sexual selection — being choosy about one’s partner — was likely to create more and more genetic inequality. The logical outcome would be two sub-species, “gracile” and “robust” humans.
Dr. Curry said: “Things could get ugly, with the possible emergence of genetic ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’.”
I’m not sure who Dr. Curry is (and I suspect this prediction says more about his personal issues than it does about the future of our species), but he makes Kurt Vonnegut look like an optimist. At least in Galapagos, the remaining humans all evolved into something else together — the same something else.
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