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Rich and poor humans may evolve as separate sub-species
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on October 17, 2006 - 3:33pm.
H.G. Wells might be proven right one day. In The Time Machine, his hero visits Earth in the far future and mankind has evolved into two races, the Morlocks and the Eloi. The former is a disgusting, race of sub-human cannibals and the latter are an enlightened race of uber-beings. A scientist predicts that given the mating rituals of rich and poor humans today, over time we will diverge into two different sub-species.
If you liked The Time Machine, then I highly recommend A Scientific Romance by Canadian writer Ronald Wright. It's a sort of sequel to Wells' book, although if you're looking for an "authorized" sequel, then look for Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships. If you just like time travel stories, then here's a big list to study.
Keeping with the subject of predicting the future and giving me an opportunity to dump some links that have been sitting around, some scientists think that by 2021 we will have total recall, perfect memory that is, not the movie. We may even have a hyperdrive one day.
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A rebuttal to the speciation story
Someone's taken a closer look at the story that claims mankind may divide into sub-species based on social classes. He thinks it's total bunk. He's probably right. For all we know, Olaf Stapledon's prediction of 18 distinct human species in his book Last and First Men is just as accurate.
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