The Most Likely Ways Humans Will Evolve

so we want to chat a little bit about evolution by which I mean the theory of how humans came to be not the 2001 film starring David Duchovny remember that it's the film where the logo was a smiley emoji with three eyes we're not going to talk about that anyway you probably know that evolution of man image showing every stage from monkeys to well us what we've been thinking about is what might come after the last picture the human I mean hopefully it's superpowers x-men movies say the next stage of evolution is superpowers but we've been looking into it and it's more likely than instead of laser eyes or metal claws our toes will just fall off for real leading scientists think our pinky toes will fall off anyway before I reveal everything in the actual list here are 10 theories of human evolution that we think are pretty likely number 10 humans will get taller the average height of man goes up an inch or two every generation so it's a pretty safe bet that will keep on going your kids will be taller than you their kids will be taller than them I mean it doesn't work quite that fast but you get the picture so far it's all been about nutrition if there's a better history of nutrition in your gene pool and you've been fed nutritious food from a young age you develop taller however for generations to come the increasing height of humans is likely to be due to the allure of tall people high stature is commonly seen as a sign of attractiveness across many cultures and this means that taller people are more likely to get frisky and their genes will be the ones passed on to future generations some assume the Dutch to have plateaued and reached a maximum height but in the end only time and evolution will tell number nine will lose some of our organs we don't need a gallbladder we don't need an appendix and if you look after yourself you can survive without a spleen but we still got them it's stupid some people think these useless organs are leftovers from prior steps on the evolutionary ladder a bit like how some people are still born with a little bit of a tail yes seriously look it up more and more people around the world are being born without unnecessary organs there are theories that this is evolution catching up and slowly getting around a ditch those organs we don't need so maybe one day nobody will be born with them number eight our posture will worsen have you noticed how almost everyone complains about a bad back these days everybody's got a bad posture and there are lots of things contributing to it one of the biggest problems is office work has taken over from factory labor as the main source of income pretty much everybody's just hunting a desk 9:00 to 5:00 or longer then what do we do when we get home we sit at a laptop or a games console or curl up in bed with a phone or hunch on the sofa in front of the TV maybe in the future those with naturally curved backs will be more suited to the modern life and thus thrive seeing this evolutionary trait emerge who knows maybe one day we'll end up with a generation that looks like they were reaching for their toes and then got stuck add that to the growth in height and you'll have a generation of kids with spines like Pringles number seven will be capable of longer periods without oxygen so this one is sort of a superpower not teleportation or anything awesome life away from decent oxygen is becoming more and more common so many people spend hours a day underground on a tube getting to work and indoor jobs are now a lot more common than outdoor ones we're spending two hours a day getting to and from work and then we spend that day crammed in a tiny office we're locking ourselves away from the fresh air and I don't want to say your mom was right again but well your mom was right again fresh air is good for you and we should be getting more of it but there's an argument to be had that the pretty amazing human body may adapt to this change of environment the more time we spend in spaces with bad oxygen the more likely people with bad lungs can't handle it and thus people with more efficient lungs would thrive and reproduce we're probably going to always need oxygen but future generations may eventually be able to cope better in low oxygen environments or going longer holding their breath how cool is that you could swim for longer number six loss of little toe so here we go let me explain what I was going on about in regards to toes you don't need little toes honestly how mad is that seriously though you don't need them they don't do anything sorry but I'm going to read a quote at you feel free to fall asleep dr. Anisha Kedah Kia assistant professor and orthopedic surgery at Northwestern University said primates use their feet grab to call and to climb trees but humans we don't need that function anymore clearly we're not jumping up and down trees and we're not using our feet to grab we have toes embryologically evolutionary for that particular reason because we have descended from apes but we don't need them as people so now they just dangle on the end of our feet and there are lots of people out there who think as time goes on humans being born without pinky toes will be more and more common and maybe one day the norm number-5 mono ethnicity so this one is super interesting there's this idea called mono ethnicity which predicts that a single ethnic group will dominate a whole region or country so there's the theory that eventually the whole world could be mono-ethnic what that means is with different cultures mingling and you know get jiggy with it there are more people born every generation whose ethnicity isn't easy to define in a word or two it would take generations but with racial barriers breaking down all the time we may one day reach a point of everyone being so mingled we will all just belong to one culture and ethnicity a mono ethnicity number four more dexterous thumbs do you remember that bit him friends where Ross tries to convince Phoebe evolution is real by talking about thumbs thumbs are one of evolutions greatest achievements it sounds dumb but imagine not having thumbs using your phone would be a nightmare it seems logical given how many devices we're always using all the time that we may evolve to have more dexterous thumbs this is one thing we have generations of Angry Bird and FIFA players to thank for number three the development of two subcultures this one might be a little too sci-fi but hear me out so HG Wells novel The Time Machine depicts a future in which society has evolved into two distinct subcultures you've got the Eloi and you've got the Morlocks so Eloy are like the pale sickly but super clever half of society and the Morlocks are the tough physically superior but quite dumb half is essentially nerds versus jocks I'm not saying we're evolving towards a war between weak geniuses and strong idiots as clothes that might be no really Hollywood make a film about that be kind of Awesome but society does seem to be dividing a bit and even evolutionary theorist Oliver Curie of the London School of Economics expects this pattern to change in both England and America right now the class divided and the political divide are wider than ever although class isn't the best proxy for the division of intelligence and strength it may cause people to stick to particular sexual partners causing humanity to divide into subspecies number two weaker immune systems you always hear people moaning about how a few mollycoddle kids their immune systems won't develop properly well there's actually a term to describe this it's called the hygiene hypothesis it's the idea that a lack of exposure to enough germs and infections at a young age can prevent the immune system from developing adequately it's more common with each generation to over rely on pills and injections to get us through a bad case of the sniffles well maybe not an injection if you got a cold but you know what I mean if we keep heading in this direction we may eventually reach a point where our descendants or so unused to infection that the tiniest things could kill them like acne imagine dying of acne that's kind of what the Eloi from the time machine are all about humans who have evolved intellectually and culturally but have very much devolved when it comes to health number one less sex drive seriously Millennials have less sex and the generations before them sorry guys it is fact though part of this is that people have to earn more to get by these days it might also be because people are more into career or creative goals nowadays than just getting there and away there's also an argument to be had that this is evolutions way of dealing with the population crisis because how is the planet not cracked under the weight of the population yet whatever the reason the facts are Millennials are not just having less sex but are less bothered we seem to be less interested in what our parents might call hanky-panky and a little more interested in drinking overpriced cocktails out of jam jars these are 10 thoughts I've had based on some theories kicking around but they are literally just 10 there are so many more theories and thoughts out there I'd love to hear what you think so please comment below with any theories that you might have or anything you've read about how humans might evolve just don't say superpowers we're not going to develop superpowers okay we might you [Music]

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Published: Thu Nov 03 2016