Life is so short that it is almost impossible to track any evolutionary changes in a particular person or several generations of one family. However, scientists do not stop research that allows them to make assumptions about what people will look like in several hundred thousand years.
Appearance
In connection with the development of the transport system and a significant decrease in the time to get from one point of the globe to another, a shift of races will occur. In thousands of years, all the people of the planet will become similar to each other. There will be no black Africans or narrow-eyed Chinese. Scientists are convinced that the person of the future will have a "coffee with milk" skin and dark hair.
Already, people do not need strong legs to run away from predators, and strong hands to hunt or farm the land. Muscle atrophy will become a mandatory sign of the person of the future. Because of the weightlessness in space travel, which in a few thousand years will be the same standard way of travel as a ride in the subway or taxi is now, there will be a loss of muscle mass.
Scientists claim that Russian epic heroes, for example, Ilya Muromets, had a height of no more than 150 centimeters and weighed no more than 60 kilograms. Over time, people got taller. In the last two centuries alone, the average height of a person has increased by 10 centimeters. Anthropologists say that in a few centuries the average height of a woman will be 190 centimeters, the average height of a man - 205 centimeters.
The ancestors of modern humans had thick hair. He helped keep warm in winter and protected from sunburn in summer. Hair is no longer needed. It is possible that in the near future, people will completely lose vegetation on different parts of the body.
Previously, human jaws were larger in order to be able to chew rough food, tough meat. In recent centuries, there is simply no room left for wisdom teeth in the mouth. Now about every fourth person does not grow wisdom teeth at all, the rest have only one or two teeth instead of 4. According to anthropologists, the size of teeth will decrease significantly in the future due to the transition to soft or semi-liquid foods.
There is still no unequivocal opinion whether people of the future will have a big or a small head. Some scientists are convinced that an increase in the size of the baby's skull will complicate natural childbirth, contribute to high mortality and put humanity at risk of extinction. Other experts believe that the birth of children with the help of a cesarean section or the maturation of the fetus not in the womb, but in a special box, will lead to a decrease in the size of the head.
Other changes
The development of technology makes it possible to save an almost unlimited amount of information on external media. A person no longer needs to remember the multiplication table, spelling rules or recipes for their favorite dishes. If necessary, all this data can be found in a few moments on the Internet. In this regard, the human brain will soon be "re-profiled". He will stop memorizing information, but he will perfectly remember where it can be found.
Comfortable living conditions and the availability of medicine will significantly weaken human immunity. There will be no need to fight pathogens, because you can take a pill at any time. In addition, the predisposition to some of the diseases will be blocked by genetic engineering.
People of the future will cease to experience most of the emotions characteristic of modern humans. Most of your life will be spent alone with your computer. A person will not need to go to work and maintain good relationships in the team in order to move up the career ladder. Thanks to telecommunication technologies, there will be no need to leave the house at all. Love and friendship will become the lot of virtuality, a person will satisfy his needs for sex with the help of high-tech individually programmable devices, and procreation will be done not in bedrooms, but in laboratories.
