We have come a long way in our own evolution from apes to humans. Some of us may think that future humans would be homogeneous as races...
We have come a long way in our own evolution from apes to humans. Some of us may think that future humans would be homogeneous as races will become obsolete as interracial offspring increases thereby diluting the gene pool of so-called "racially pure." Our future children will no longer look like their ancestors as there will be no more African, Asian or Caucasian. If you overlap every picture of people on Earth, a composite image will reveal that the future human will look neither from any race group.
Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has partnered with a computational geneticist to research and illustrate what we might look like 20,000 years in the future, as well as 60,000 years and 100,000 years out. It looks like humans will look more alien-like in the future!
In 20,000 years, we will have a larger head with a forehead that is subtly too large. A future "communications lens" is represented by the yellow ring around their eyes. These lenses will be the 'Google Glass' of the future.
In 60,000 years, we will have even larger heads, larger eyes and pigmented skin. A pronounced superciliary arch makes for a darker area below eyebrows. Miniature bone-conduction devices may be implanted above the ear now to work with communications lenses.
If we are still alive in 100,000 years, our face is proportioned to the 'golden ratio,' though it features unnervingly large eyes. There is green “eye shine” from the tapetum lucidum, and a more pronounced superciliary arch. A sideways blink of the reintroduced plica semilunaris seen in the light gray areas of the eyes, while miniature bone-conduction devices implanted above the ear work with the communications lenses on the eyes.
So the question is, will our future offspring be able to recognize us?
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