07 June 2013

FORBES : HOW THE HUMAN FACE MAY LOOK IN THE FAR FUTURE : YIKES!

FORBES : HUMAN FACE IN 100,000 YEARS  link here (hope the advertisement doesn't pop!)

OK here's a clue... bug eyed!

EXCERPT: "Kwan says that 60,000 years from now, our ability to control the human genome will also make the effect of evolution on our facial features moot. As genetic engineering becomes the norm, “the fate of the human face will be increasingly determined by human tastes,” he says in a research document. Eyes will meanwhile get larger, as attempts to colonize Earth’s solar system and beyond see people living in the dimmer environments of colonies further away from the Sun than Earth."

(Dr. Alan Kwan, who holds a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University.)