you wake up a 100 years from now and things are weird your body feels different you check the mirror and yep it's true you've got a second eyelid and no body hair sounds like sci-fi but nope there's actual science behind it think about how often you check your phone a lot right well this might be why you have that second eyelid now as screens took over our lives we evolved this extra eyelid to filter out harmful blue light and reduce eye strain future you blinks and a translucent Shield covers your eyes it's like Nature's Way
of protecting us from all that digital glare downside we all look a bit more like robots now Americans spend about 7 hours a day on the internet some researchers took this info and ran with it meet Mindy the 3D model of humans 100 years from now she's got the lowdown on what constant phone checking and endless office hours have done to us Mindy's got an arched back a thicker skull a smaller brain a 90° elbow and something called a text claw that doesn't feel right does it all those hours looking down at your phone strain
your neck muscles and mess with your spine but the text claws that's next level weird this mutation comes from always holding your smartphone and those elbows permanently bent at 90° like some kind of stiff Barbie doll imagine trying to navigate crowded streets bumping into people left and right and body hair we might lose it all in the future but this is actually a pretty mysterious subject let's rewind the tape a bit you've probably heard that body hair was used to protect us from harsh weather one thing scientists have discovered is that our ancestors that started
shedding hair had some pretty good advantages the ones who lost the hair on their palms or wrists could handle stone tools and Machinery way better than the other ones there's also a famous Theory known as The Aquatic ape Theory which explains one reason for that like hippos and dolphins we turned off the genes that produce fur this idea suggests that our human ancestors that lived on the savanas of Africa migrated to oases during drier Seasons during these Seasons they hunted in Shallow Waters and well it turns out that hair is not a very good insulator
in water so our species lost their fur and developed a layer of fat the question remains in the future will we deactivate these genes Al together and become totally hairless guess we'll have to wait and see geneticists are worried about something big humans becoming too alike there's a scientific risk of human alikeness or grand averaging open any social media app and you'll see it everyone dresses the same talks the same yada yada but this sameness could halt human evolution Evolution depends on genetic differences and passing them on over time these differences should change the population
if the changes are big enough a new species arises but the three components needed for evolution variation natural selection and geographic isolation are pretty much fading away scientists call humans a single genetic continent mixing and no longer breeding within cultural or ethnic groups given enough time we might all start to look more alike here's a good one humans will develop to live longer much longer than we do now all along our Evolution we've been subject to external factors that determined our lifespan back in the stone ages and stuff we were subject to dangerous predators or
the encounter with other tribes other than ours that could harm us as people would normally pass away at quite a young age they had little room to develop important mutations but when humans mortality rates are lowered the opposite happens in the past two centuries life expectancy soared to 70 years worldwide the constant scientific development leads us to think humans might naturally evolve to live an average life of a hundred years and more our lazy lifestyles are messing with our spines we might end up with fewer vertebrae and shorter bendier backs making back pain less of
a pain and perfect for our Des J jobs future humans could be total slouchers with Standing Tall becoming super rare you know all this talk is making me want to go for a walk since we're talking about lifestyle we need to talk about food all the processed soft foods we're eating are changing how we chew back in the day when our bodies were taking form we used to eat raw meat and plants a study actually shows that the lower jaw reflected whether a population was primarily a hunter gather or agriculturalist in nature about 7 million
years ago our ancestors had long jaws and a face that projected forward what do our Jaws reflect about us now that our food is so soft some predictions say that 100 plus years from now humans might have smaller mouths with fewer teeth and weaker Jaws this also means that our faces will be smaller without much chin our Jaws tucked in a wee bit more pollution isn't just bad for the planet it's changing us too future Generations might get bigger nostrils and better lungs to deal with bad air quality imagine humans with superpowered breathing systems thriving
in polluted environments breathing in the future will be a whole new ball game these predictions might sound wild but they're based on scientific theories as our environment and Lifestyles change so will our bodies in fascinating and terrifying ways next time you look in the mirror remember you're seeing the human body as it is today but who knows what it'll look like tomorrow embrace the mystery of our evolving selves humans might lose their palmaris longus muscle that tiny tendon in your wrist that many people don't even realize they have it's pretty much the appendix of muscles
completely unnecessary as we evolve we'll likely say goodbye to this little tended because we're not swinging from trees or doing intense grip exercises anymore our hands are occupied with texting typing and swiping so in a few Generations we might look at our smooth tendon free wrists and think Evolution really Marie condo our muscles love your toes much well then you can bid one of them farewell our toes help us keep our balance when we're walking research shows that our balance is Shifting inwards if our ancestors used to rely on all their toes for balance we
ourselves don't use all of them as much this means that we'll need our pinky toes less and less and if this trend keeps up it won't be long before we bid them goodbye okay so there's something called directed Evolution which literally means science replacing nature instead of leaving it to the hands of Destiny or fate why not decide our own future we kind of already do that when we choose a partner out of appearance or personality traits for thousands of years hunter gatherers arranged marriages seeking good hunters for their daughters but I'm talking about stuff
done in Laboratories from now onwards we have the power to control the genes of our Offspring science can screen for genetic mutations it can also choose an embryo with a particular eye color and things like that yep DNA control is a thing of the future if you think it doesn't get more bizarre than that wait for this someone asked an AI to mock up some pictures of what humans will look like a thousand years from now according to this AI software our faces will be covered in a web of wiring Motors it's like a crossover
between Frankenstein and the Terminator perhaps this is the beauty standard of the future yikes Meek Graham Graham is a distant descendant of humanity whose body has evolved to survive a car crash he isn't a CG model he's a life-size statue made of silicon and human hair Graham is a piece of Modern Art he's a speculation of what human bodies look like in the years ahead Graham was created for a road safety campaign but this artist depicts hyperrealistic humanoids in many different forms even possible hybrids between humans and other species it looks pretty weird at first
but I mean at this rate anything seems possible for our Collective future [Music] that's it for today so hey if you pacified your curiosity then give the video a like and share it with your friends or if you want more just click on these videos and stay on the bright side
