Human species 'may split in two'

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm

This has got to be one of the most rediculous things I have ever read.....you can not "predict" human
evolution.....to many variables.This was worse then the worst sci-fi I have ever read...

And aspies will be an even mix of the two .

Within 100,000 years, heck within 1,000 years, we're going to be cloning and genetically altering embryos anyway... so if there are two distinct camps it will be between those who can afford genetic enhancement or cloning and those who cannot afford it and just conceive naturally.

At the moment I feel "they" will find a way to drive us to extinction, we are probably one of the last generations of aspies... I don't think we'll make it 1,000 years more

I couldn't make any sense out of that guy's reasoning. I can't think of too much that's happened in the history of life on earth that could have been predicted beforehand. Nature has an obvious fondness for weird plot twists.

What we call civilization is a very recent and tenuous experiment that's looking pretty shaky.

Thorstein Veblen takes on genetics?

What if nano-technology (just a what if) managed to enable you to live 200, or 300, or indefinate amount of years?

Would you do it?

I figured, if anything, we'd get fatter in the future. And how useful would the blue collar species be if they were all squats?

I am not all that thrilled about living as long as I have,even another 20-40 years seems more like a curse then a "blessing"....how about I get the Nano,better health,win the lottery, throw in a pony....oh,and peace and good will,no more world suffering,poverty and genocide and could we involve
some kind of removal of current US governement.....then,maybe.

I'm very skeptical about this.

In my more sci-fi moments i often wonder if maybe AS is actually the start of speciation - Aspies are more likely to find Aspie partners than they are NT partners, and therefore will produce more Aspie children, and perhaps will become a completely distinct population, and maybe eventually genetically evolve enough that Aspies and NTs would no longer be able to breed with one another and produce fertile offspring - thus becoming effectively separate species...

This is similar to species branching out into different environments and speciation being caused by adaptation to new conditions - arguably Aspies are better suited to a high technology world than NTs are, and it's arguably technology (particularly computers and the internet) that has led to Aspies finding partners and breeding with one another (whereas in the past most Aspies would probably have never found partners or had the opportunity to have children).

Trouble is, peak oil and climate change are going to completely devastate technological civilisation within the next 50 years at most (IMO), and humanity will be forced to return to a low-tech, primarily agriculturtal existence... so we're an adaptive speciation adapted for a "new" condition of human life that will soon cease to exist...

That report is absolute cr@p, tho...

(If things did go Wells's way, i think i'd rather be a Morlock... )

Were they the "upper class" then? The rich eat the poor and live underground. Hmmm...

lol, I was going to post "stop reading the time machine".

Humanity may have already split in two. You know that world you're in when you get up from the computer to use the bathroom and eat, etc.? I hear that there may actually be people who live exclusively in that world.

Nice. I know alot of thin people, who are rather useless. Size isn't an issue, you can be healthy at ANY size. We're "overweight" now because, we're living in a time without famine. Some people would say that's good. Alot of people, like you, insist that something must be wrong and that we should all starve ourselves back to a famine weight.

Erm...that pretty much already is.

At least judging from typicial NT behaviour.