Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Meet Future Woman: Shorter, Plumper, More Fertile

Tall, slim, and soon to be a museum piece.
(Image: Hugh Kretschmer / Stone + / Getty)

From New Scientist:

Women of the future are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and longer reproductive windows. These changes are predicted by the strongest proof to date that humans are still evolving.

Medical advances mean that many people who once would have died young now live to a ripe old age. This has led to a belief that natural selection no longer affects humans and, therefore, that we have stopped evolving.

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