1000 years into the future,
humans might look like this.
This is Mindy, a model that shows
what we humans might look like in the year 3000.
Equipped with a hunched over back claws and smaller brain,
Mindy has adapted this way, primarily
due to technology and cell phones.
But this is just a start of a potential
evolution century journey of the human body.
Let's travel 1 million years into the future
to see the even crazier ways our bodies will evolve.
Super strength, giant eyes and edited
genes are all things you might see later in this episode.
But why are we getting all these traits anyway?
Well, more on that in a second.
But for now, let's check in and see what the next phase of evolution is for humans.
5000 years into the future.
Okay, we're now several thousand years into the future.
And in many ways humans would look relatively similar to how we do now.
Yeah, if we look 5000 years into the past from where we are today, we'll
humans look basically the same.
The main differences are that, well, we're now healthier, taller and stronger.
This is primarily due to how our diet, health
care and lifestyle have changed throughout the centuries.
This is speculation, but you can assume that
a lot will have happened 5000 years into the future.
Changes that include space travel and massive
advancements in technology and I
and how we look all depends on where humans
decide to live in the future.
If humanity becomes
an interstellar civilization, well, we might look like this.
And if we stay on earth and
go all in on A.I., well, humans might look more like this.
So we'll explore a couple of options as we move through the years.
The generations of humans who decide to go to
Mars will notice the most significant changes.
Mars's lower gravity would lead to less bone density and muscle mass.
But the change in gravity might also lead to increased height and longer limbs.
And there'll be a lot more changes coming up.
But for now, let's take another jump into the future
and check on some other options for human evolution.
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25,000 years into the future,
it's safe to say that technology
will play a heavy role in how humans evolve.
Traveling 25,000 years into the future, well,
you might decide to have a designer baby instead of creating life naturally.
And leaving so many things to chance.
You would select various traits for who you want your baby to be.
You could choose physical characteristics like hair and eye color,
and much more essential features, like the ability
to avoid certain diseases and allergies.
In a way, this is already happening today, but in the future
it'll be more advanced and accessible.
It's also likely that humans will begin to fuze with technology becoming cyborg
like beings think neural links,
robot limbs and sensory enhancements.
Imagine having a chip in your brain that's equipped with an A.I.
that provides you with any answer you need.
Humans will have all these cybernetic enhancements
that will make them smarter, stronger and able to live longer.
100,000 years into the future,
one of the ways which we can see how much humans have
evolved is by looking at our faces and heads.
As you see here, in 100,000 years, our eyes and heads
will be significantly larger.
This will be due to multiple reasons, one of them being that
we'll be living in different environments like space.
Our larger eyes will allow us to see better in low light environments.
They will also help protect our eyes from the cosmic rays found in space
on Mars, along with bones becoming
less dense and limbs continuing to get longer.
Residents there will need to develop some new survival traits to last
this long as humanity has developed on Mars over the generations will.
They've been experiencing tons of radiation in their environment.
That's thanks to the lack of an atmosphere on the red planet.
Over time, humanity there has slowly adapted to this new way of life.
But the radiation levels are so harsh
that they likely haven't adapted enough to live comfortably.
One of the
problems with evolution is that it's incredibly slow.
Seeing significant change in our bodies can take millions of years.
So to fix that, we'll need to make some changes ourselves.
You'll see what I mean as we continue on to our 1 million year mark,
250,000 years into the future.
Yeah, Humanity was tired of waiting and waiting for changes
in evolution to happen, so they've decided to do it themselves.
We've been altering our bodies with technology
for hundreds of thousands of years at this point,
But now we're going to take it to another level.
Yeah.
Instead of adding some sort of enhancement to our bodies, well, we'll now
alter our DNA with a advanced genetic manipulation.
Scientists are already experimenting with this technology, but 250,000 years
from now, well, you can bet the science will be advanced beyond belief.
Scientists will be able to
alter, edit and even add different genetic mutations,
both before people are born and after.
In the case of our colony on Mars, while people on that planet could
alter their genes so that the radiation isn't as harmful to their bodies.
And that's just the start.
Eventually, we'll alter our genes to produce all sorts of insane attributes.
You could be brilliant, have super strength, or be immune
to every disease as humanity unlocks
this new era of human evolution.
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500,000 years into the future.
It's been another 250,000 years.
Humanity has been playing around with this gene editing thing
and it's gotten pretty ridiculous.
Scientists have managed to combine parts of lizard
DNA with our human DNA.
This is allowed us to regrow our limbs and grow new organs if we need them.
Also, along with the help of technology and genetic thing,
humans are more intelligent than ever.
We can now naturally have any appearance we want.
This might sound kind of scary, but
gene editing like this will likely be essential for us to survive
in new environments like space and our evolving earth
1 million years into the future.
So remember the humans back on Earth, the ones who were adding
tons of cybernetic enhancements to their bodies?
Yeah, they've continued to do that along with tons of gene editing,
and the people in space have been doing the same thing.
But as we've been progressing through these 1 million years,
the environments on Earth and Mars have been very different.
And because of these different environments, the humans living on
these planets would have different needs and desires for the
types of bodies they want.
Remember,
evolution is all about lifestyle and the environment.
That's why Mindy, at the start, look the way she did.
It's possible that the humans living on these two planets
would be so different that they'd essentially be
two completely separate species, sort of like 50,000 years ago
when there were humans on Earth at the same time as Neanderthals.
But regardless of how they're different, it's likely that both types of future
humans will be the most advanced species ever seen,
will live longer, maybe forever, be smarter than ever,
and be ready to take on whatever challenges the future holds.
Speaking of the future, at this point,
humanity is likely in a type two
or maybe even a Type three civilization.
But what happens after that?
Well, that sounds like a story for another.
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