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Could the human species break open in two over metre due toevolutionary pressuresas predicted byscience fictionwriterH.G. Wells ?
Evolutionary theoretician Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics believes it could encounter in 100,000 age . I could n’t resist this taradiddle , even though Dr. Curry ’s degree is evidently a PhD " on the evolution of human moral thought " rather than in evolutionary genetic science .
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" Underclass " human beings will have devolved into dim - witted , short , goblin - similar creatures .
Chin would fall behind , as a resultant of chewing on carefully processed foods . Reliance on music would ensue in dampen resistant organization , with genetic weakness no longer hurl out of the gene puddle . The logical outcome , says Curry , would be two sub - species of human beings ; one radical gracile ( svelte and attractive ) and the other more robust and physically strong .
The Upper - world people might once have been the favor gentry , and the Morlocks their mechanical servants : but that had long since passed away . The two specie that had resulted from the evolution of humans were sliding down towards , or had already arrived at , an altogether new kinship . The Eloi , like the Carolingian king , had decayed to a simple beautiful futility . They still possess the worldly concern on toleration : since the Morlocks , subterranean for multitudinous generations , had come at last to find the daylit aerofoil unbearable … years ago , thousands of generation ago , serviceman had thrust his sidekick valet de chambre out of the relaxation and the sunlight . And now that brother was coming back changed … So , in the end , above ground you must have the Haves , pursuing pleasure and quilt and mantrap , and below ground the Have - nots , the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their toil … Such of them as were so make up as to be low and disaffected would die ; and , in the end , the balance being permanent , the subsister would become as well adapt to the weather condition of underground life , and as happy in their way , as the Upper - world people were to theirs . As it seemed to me , the refined dish and the etiolated paleness followed naturally enough . … The too - perfect security of the Upper - worlders had lead them to a slow movement of decadency , to a superior general dwindle down in size of it , strength , and intelligence operation . That I could see clearly enough already . What had happened to the Under - grounders I did not yet mistrust ; but from what I had see of the Morlocks – that , by the by , was the name by which these creatures were call – I could reckon that the modification of the human type was even far more sound than among the " Eloi , " the beautiful race that I already knew . ( From The Time Machine [ H.G. Wells , 1898 ] )
Curry is apparently propose speciation without geographical isolation — what is called " sympatric speciation . " Some scientistsreject it outright . One species , theRhagoletis pomonellamaggot , which in the first place fed on hawthorn fruit , may be undergo sympatric speciation in this country follow the introduction of the orchard apple tree in North America . Rhagoletis pomonellathat feed in on apples no longer feed on hawthorn yield and vice - versa .
Take a look at more ofH.G. Wells ' ideas and inventions(apparently " torn from today ’s headlines " ) . show a standard instance of the storyhere ; Dr. Curry ’s remarks were prepared for and deport on the 21st anniversary of Bravo , a man ’s television channel .
( ThisScience Fiction in the Newsstory used with permission fromTechnovelgy.com
