Assuming evolution is true, I keep looking around to figure out which subset of humans is starting to split off from the species and form their own club.
In theory, some group of humans will stop mating with outsiders and start mutating over generations until their teeth have little hands that can hold gum when they’re tired of chewing. That’s just an example. Maybe they will grow a unicorn horn out of their ass so they always have a stool for watching soccer games. The possibilities are both endless and exciting, especially since we’re the first creatures to be aware of evolution. So we might start guiding it for the benefit of future generations.
“Billy, I think you should marry that girl on the corner. Her shoulder blades are huge and I think over time your descendants could have wings. It would save a lot on gas.”
So who are these precursors to the new species? One possibility is giants in Holland. I’ve heard that the Dutch are the tallest people around. If they can keep their huge paws off the sexy but smallish French, the Dutch will keep inbreeding and growing. Eventually it will be physically impossible for a giant Dutch guy to knock up any woman less than 12 feet tall without killing her in the process.
Or has evolution stopped in humans because we’re so judgmental. I imagine a squirrel would still hump another squirrel even if the humpee had three tails, thus heading down the road towards a new three-tailed squirrel species. But humans are picky. I just talked to a woman who dumped her boyfriend because she didn’t think his job was good enough. I think if he had a snout and ate ants he would have been gone even sooner.
My guess is that the next human species will differ primarily in the brain. Thanks to the Internet and our ability to travel, the smartest humans are starting to meet and congregate at places like Stanford and Google. Over time, the smartest people will start breeding primarily with other geniuses. Their babies will continue the trend until the new species has average IQs in the 600 range. And they will argue that since the average IQ is 100 by definition, what I just said makes no sense within their species.
We already see a big difference in how people perceive reality. Some people perceive only the natural world that can be measured. Other people (the vast majority) perceive the supernatural world to be equally real, including souls and spirits and angels and ghosts and God. I think the two groups might go their separate ways.
In the old days, atheists were killed before they could breed. Now they move to Europe where all they do is eat cheese and hump. Result: more atheists. Meanwhile, Omar the disbeliever in Saudi Arabia is having his junk removed by sword so he won’t father any new infidels. I might be exaggerating that last part, but I’m sure Omar isn’t getting six wives.
So that’s our human future – a bunch of cheese-breath atheists squaring off against the species who perceive things that aren’t measurable. The atheists will have most of the scientists but the supernatural-seers will have numbers. I can only hope for the sake of the scientists that the supernatural-seers become vegetarians.