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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:54:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
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> > I'm no physiologist, and this is largely based on mediocre SF, but I think
> > it's quite possible that humans will evolve rapidly as a response to low
> > gravity conditions (if that's not a selective pressure I don't know what
> > is!!). More immediately, development and growth could easily be affected
> > (lower bone densities etc) and cultural/physical antipathy to Earth would
> > create a population bottleneck. Isolated population + novel environment =
> > classic speciation scenario.
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> I think one of the biggest shifts in our species "unnatural evolution" will come
> when we stop worrying about the effect of zerogee (ZG) on the human body and
> split into ZG and PlusG branches, where ZGs will have no DESIRE to visit planets
> and deal with the nasty gravity there. At that point, there's a good chance
> that most PlusGs won't have any desire to deal with ZG either.
<nit-pick>
I think this is totally natural evolution. Our technology is an extension
of our phenotype, just culturally expressed rather than genetically, and
since it lets us access a new environment it makes biological sense that we
adapt to that environment. We might need to tinker a bit before we can cope
with a near-vacuum though.
--DaveL
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