NORMAL LIFE: Are Your Descendents Going to be Gorgeous or Hobbits?

I read a really interesting article last week (you can see it here), which told of how experts suspect that humanity may split into two sub-species.

Humans are expected to reach their peak in the year 3000 (how do they know things like this?), but an over-dependence on technology would lead to human's eventual demise. The expert claims that people would become choosier about their sexual partners (most of my friends are already too choosy), causing humanity to divide into what Evolutionary Theorist, Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics, refers to as 'an upper class, elite species' alongside a 'dim-witted underclass'.

The 'upper class' would be tall (between 6ft-7ft), slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative (sounds like most of the people living in the Nordic countries) with life-spans exceeding 120 years, a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures (scary, isn't it, the thought that your grandchildren might me like Frodo and the hobbits!).

If you think that turning into a thick, ugly hobit is cause for concern, Dr Curry warms that humans will eventually pay a price for using technological gadgets to serve our every need. That price will see us come to resemble domestic animals: we would develop receding chins and social skills could be lost, along with the ability to express emotions such as love, sympathy, trust and respect (very much like the youth of today, but am I bovvered!).

An even scarier part is that novelist H G Wells apparently foresaw all this in his 1895 novel, The Time Machine. Similarly, Morgan Robertson's novel, The Wreck of the Titan (published in 1898) bore an uncanny resemblance to the Titanic disaster some fourteen years before the huge ocean liner sank in the Atlantic ocean; these people are like real-life Nostradamus'. Whooooo!