Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years

[razors edge]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm



Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology.

People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

[joemurphy]

1. Eloi and Morlocks n/t

[Beetwasher]

2. Either This Guy Reads Too Much HG Wells

Or HG Wells is an even greater genius than anyone's ever given him credit for before, and he's gotten a LOT of credit for being a genius and a visionary already.

[Downtown Hound]

3. We've already done that

Bush voters and non-Bush voters.

[Mz Pip]

4. I'll be sorry to miss it.

I'll probably have the flu or be surfing in Oahu. Please make a video for all of us who can't be there and post it on YouTube.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[ecstatic]

5. men will have bigger penises!!

men will exhibit symmetrical facial features, look athletic, and have squarer jaws, deeper voices and bigger penises.

[madmusic]

11. And women...

Women, on the other hand, will develop lighter, smooth, hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even features, he adds. Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people.

Any guess on what his favorite Playboy pics are?

[Jim Sagle]

6. Winston Churchill's reply, on the eve of the Battle of Britain:

"Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."

The same perverted science is being peddled by Dr. Curry and Murdoch's news empire tonight.

[razors edge]

9. yeah, churchill was a numb nut.

he loved the idea of poison gas.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. Um...so?

Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist who believed that blacks were inferior and that racial equality should never happen. Theodore Roosevelt was a sabre-rattling imperialist who loved war the way some men love football. Still great men, despite their flaws.

[razors edge]

22. No love of lincoln here

the man authored an amendment to the constitution to make slavery permanent anonymously just before his election.

[Jim Sagle]

21. Sorry to go Anglophile on your sorry ass.

Actually, not sorry at all.

[whistle]

7. Back on the road to eugenics, it never ends, does Oliver Curry

...masturbate into a jar regularly?

<snip>
Oliver Curry

Oliver Curry is a Research Associate in LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. He also teaches Political Theory at New York University in London. Oliver is interested in evolutionary explanations of behaviour, especially human social, moral and political behaviour. He is also interested in how evolutionary explanations of moral and political thought and behaviour shed light on problems in moral and political theory.

Oliver completed his PhD thesis -- on the evolution of human moral sentiments -- in the Government Department of the LSE. His thesis used recent developments in evolutionary game theory, animal behaviour and evolutionary psychology to further the goal of placing the study of morality on a sound scientific basis. The thesis gave David Hume's account of the moral sentiments a Darwinian update, showed how the evolutionary account of morality provides a framework in which to make sense of various aspects of moral philosophy, and highlighted a number of areas in which further research is needed.

Oliver is currently working on turning some of the predictions that evolutionary theory makes about human moral and political psychology into tractable experiments, and putting them to the test. This includes work on the evolution of patience, on attitudes to abortion, and on moral decision-making in psychopaths. For more information on this area of research, see the website of the Evolutionary Moral Psychology Group. Oliver is co-editor and author of various Darwin@LSE publications, including Darwinism Today and the special edition of the Demos Quarterly.

Email: [e-mail]
Publications

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/darwin/people.htm

[AlienGirl]

13. If only Stephen Jay Gould were still alive to put the smackdown on 'em

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man

[whistle]

28. Indeed, S. J. Gould was born in the same year as myself, it is

...unfortunate that he was not able to live and work longer to indisputably nail down the relationship of genetic inheritance and environmental/cultural factors, because the likes of Herrnstein and Murray <The Bell Curve> will be with us as long as there is arrogance, racism and greed on this planet. Thank you for the reminder and the link.

[madmusic]

8. More likely...

The upper class will kill us all off long before that.

[AlienGirl]

10. Speculative at best, throwback to eugenics at worst

Since intelligence and creativity have not been proven to be genetic traits, and neither one is connected to height or attractiveness, it seems silly to expect the rise of an upperclass Ubermensch with all these traits put together.

Tucker (a short, plain, smart, creative poor person)

[Warpy]

12. I've met members of the old money upper class

and I've met members of the chronically underpaid, underfed, overworked lower class, and trust me, the upper class is not where the brains reside.

The upper class has a veneer of education and sophistication, but it's a veneer. It's not to be confused with intelligence in any way. They would be utterly helpless if left to their own devices.

It takes more intelligence to survive under the conditions the lower classes generally face. It takes little intelligence to delegate all the brain work to them.

[Disturbed]

17. 100K years?

It seems likely that humans will be extinct in 100 years or less.

[ruiner4u]

23. I agree..

two examples come to mind. Prince charles and any 'black irish' guy who fixes cars or fights fires.. I know which one is hotter and who I want to be with.

[originalpckelly]

14. Mr. Curry forgot to say that he is a member of the dim-witted underclass

from that future time. He traveled back in a time machine, which he stole from his master.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. I dunno. Sounds to me like Mike Judge has the future nailed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

[ourbluenation]

16. I get no respect around here....

Just kidding. But yeah, I brought this up about agillion hours ago. :P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2418203&mesg_id=2418203

[razors edge]

19. We're not worthy

[Kurovski]

27. See, you are adored! But writing headlines is not often easy, and

by my calculation, you posted agillion-kablillion hours ago.

[AlienGirl]

18. "Class" is the new "race."

[leftofthedial]

24. also known as liberals and conservatives

respectively

[undergroundpanther]

25. He's got it backwards

Rich thugs who do nothing don't think don't care are already goblin like creatures look at bush.

Anyways this is poor bashing(note he said UNDERCLASS) dressed up as "science". Fuck this asshole eugenic promoting pice of shit.

[malaise]

26. Ditto n/t

[cali]

29. 100,000 years?

Yeah, like there will really be humans around 100,000 years from now. Not very likely.

[Superman Returns]

30. this is hilarious

what the hell is that?

[conscious evolution]

31. As a tall skinny guy

I kinda like the idea!
No bias here! :evilgrin: