Researchers from Toll Free Forwarding created 'Mindy' to show what people could look like by the year 3000, and they predict that due to our reliance on technology our posture will change
This article focuses on how different habits associated with the use of different technologies can have negative effects on the body. They then make the strange assertion that these negative characteristics would compound over generations due to evolution. But this is not how evolution works! If anything, evolution would more likely do the opposite - it would build our bodies such that we can better avoid these negative consequences.
But even if they do reproduce, the traits accumulated during one’s lifetime are not passed on!
One of the early theories of how traits are inherited is Lamarckism. A classic example is giraffes - according to Lamarckism, giraffes would spend their lives stretching their neck to reach the the leaves higher up in the trees, so each generation had an even longer necks. But our current understanding of genetics and evolution by natural selection is that Lamarckism is definitely not a significant mode of inheritance for mammals. You can get a little technical and find some Lamarckism (or at least the potential of it) if you look into epigenetics, but no need to go there now.
This article focuses on how different habits associated with the use of different technologies can have negative effects on the body. They then make the strange assertion that these negative characteristics would compound over generations due to evolution. But this is not how evolution works! If anything, evolution would more likely do the opposite - it would build our bodies such that we can better avoid these negative consequences.
People like that aren’t going to reproduce. Yeah, I think you are right.
But even if they do reproduce, the traits accumulated during one’s lifetime are not passed on!
One of the early theories of how traits are inherited is Lamarckism. A classic example is giraffes - according to Lamarckism, giraffes would spend their lives stretching their neck to reach the the leaves higher up in the trees, so each generation had an even longer necks. But our current understanding of genetics and evolution by natural selection is that Lamarckism is definitely not a significant mode of inheritance for mammals. You can get a little technical and find some Lamarckism (or at least the potential of it) if you look into epigenetics, but no need to go there now.
I just thought it was great that the digital rendering of a person looked like Millie Bobby Brown