10万年后的人类长怎样.docVIP

10万年后的人类长怎样 Just as the human face has evolved considerably since the Stone Age so it is expected to keep changing in the future. Today the human brain is three times the size of our primate ancestors. As our brains grew so did our heads get bigger， our skulls expanded and our features became flatter. Now with the advent of wearable technology （Google Glass）， how will our heads and faces evolve in 20，000 years， 60，000 years and even 100，000 years from now？ This was the question posed by artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm when he quizzed Dr Alan Kwan， who holds a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University in St. Louis. Based on their discussions， Lamm has created a stunning series of images which display one possible evolution for the human race over the next 100，000 years. Dr Kwan believes that the key to our future evolution will be man “wresting control” of the human form from natural evolution and adapting human biology to suit our needs. As genetic engineering becomes the norm， “the fate of the human face will be increasingly determined by human tastes” writes Dr Kwan， while foreheads will continue to expand as our brains continue to grow larger. As man achieves total mastery over human morphological genetics， the human face will become heavily biased towards features that humans find fundamentally appealing： strong， regal lines， straight nose， intense eyes， and placement of facial features that adhere to the golden ratio of left and right perfect symmetry. Dr Kwan believes eyes will grow “unnervingly large” as the human race colonizes the solar system and people start living in the dimmer environments of colonies further away from the sun. Eyes will also develop in other ways― that would seem startling from our viewpoint today―with new features including eye-shine enhance low-light vision and even a sideways blink from re-constituted plica semilunaris to help protect our eyes from cosmic rays. Skin will also become more pigmented to help alleviat