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ot: North / South Divide?
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"Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as
predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.
The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim,
healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the
"underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat
goblin-like creatures."
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"He carried out the report for men's satellite TV channel Bravo"
so that's well-intentioned science then.
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I think this is happening already.
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Kawasaki and Yamaha riders, innit?
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A more sensible question would be "why hasn't it already happened"?
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No, no! A more sensible question would be "who on Earth would pay this...
person to produce such a dreadful load of codswallop".
And the answer is? Bravo! Gives one a real sense that it's a work of
scholastic genius.
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European bosses / Chinese workers.
A more sensible question would be "hasn't it already happened?"
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100,000 years is a reasonably small fraction of the time that
anatomically modern humans have been around.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What species are you referring to by this?
I would assume it meant H. Sapiens, in which case you're a bit out. H.
Sapiens was around from 200,000 years ago, IIRC.
If you mean the first species (Habilis?) then you are, of course,
correct, although I think referring to them as "anatomically modern" is
maybe stretching the point a bit.
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err, 100,000 years is the entire span of time that anatomically modern
humans have been around.
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Er, no it's not. I'm going to have to go to the bookshelf now...
OK, ok, the earliest H Sapien is now thought to be about 160k years
ago. Previously it was indeed 100k years.
I was obviously thinking of the earliest Homo species, which I think
is now thought to be 3.2M years ago (Lucy, et al).
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Lucy was Australopithecus afarensis, wasn't she?
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So in that time we've had Homo Sapiensis and Homo Neanderthalis, two
(sub-)species of humans, one of which was tall, slim, intelligent and
creative and the other was relatively dim-witted, ugly, squat and
goblin-like.
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what does a 'Goblin' actually look like then ? A real one not a madie
uppie one
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Ugly thing - lurks in the bedroom and hisses and spits.
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It's been happening you centuries, have you ever been to Wales?
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"dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures"
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squat goblin-like ????
I'm not that short.
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Calm down mate, he's got you mixed up with Rope
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Ahhhh I see
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You'll wish you didn't - you've never met Rope have you?
God's teeth he's ugly!
And short
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No but I think some of my uncles sheep may have,
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Who pulled your tail??
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We don't have tails. That's a luxury reserved for the Welsh.
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I thought it was called Taffy. What's that all about?
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You're thinking of lava bread.
Thats thrown up all over the mountains.
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