How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years

[TexasTowelie]

We’ve come along way looks-wise from our homo sapien ancestors. Between 800,000 and 200,000 years ago, for instance, rapid changes in Earth climate coincided with a tripling in the size of the human brain and skull, leading to a flattening of the face. But how might the physiological features of human beings change in the future, especially as new, wearable technology like Google Glass change the way we use our bodies and faces? 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. His full, eye-popping illustrations are at the bottom of this post.

Lamm says this is “one possible timeline,” where, thanks to zygotic genome engineering technology, our future selves would have the ability to control human biology and human evolution in much the same way we control electrons today.

Lamm speaks of “wresting control” of the human form from natural evolution and bending human biology to suit our needs. The illustrations were inspired by conversations with Dr. Alan Kwan, who holds a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University.

Kwan based his predictions on what living environments might look like in the future, climate and technological advancements. One of the big changes will be a larger forehead, Kwan predicts – a feature that has already expanding since the 14th and 16th centuries. Scientists writing in the British Dental Journal have suggested that skull-measurement comparisons from that time show modern-day people have less prominent facial features but higher foreheads, and Kwan expects the human head to trend larger to accommodate a larger brain.

More at http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/06/07/how-the-human-face-might-look-in-100000-years/?partner=yahootix .

[Drale]

1. The way things are going, in 100,000 years, this is how the human race is gonna look

Unless we can combat climate change soon.

[Junkdrawer]

2. This

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Lol! What a pessimist you are...............

[FirstLight]

8. +1000

yep that's what I was thinking

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Yay! Our descendents will all have "Bette Davis Eyes".

[reformist2]

18. LOL!

[TlalocW]

5. Oh, crap

We're on our way to looking like anime cartoon characters.

Will we also have really small mouths when closed but gigantic when open and be surrounded by speed lines too?

TlalocW

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. So eventually people will look like Keane paintings?

[LeftInTX]

9. Haa haa!!

I remember those!

[alphafemale]

12. That is what I immediately thought of. Those things were so creepy. nt

[On the Road]

17. Damn -- You Beat Me to It

and you chose the same painting, too!

[undeterred]

7. in 600 years

[The Straight Story]

10. So we are all gonna be white and need bigger glasses? (nt)

[onehandle]

11. Good news for some...

[sufrommich]

13. So we're all going to look like Japanese anime? nt

[XemaSab]

14. Half the world's population lives in Asia

That monolid's not going ANYWHERE.

[sarisataka]

15. I always figured this

[On the Road]

16. Perhaps Margaret Keane is a Visitor from the Future?

http://www.keane-eyes.com/

[Mosby]

19. It's already started