The University of Sheffield, UK, has reported birds evolving in tune to the urban development! Isn’t this great news? So we all have to just sit back and evolve!! Is that what you are saying Mother Nature?
Birds have started switching their morning chores to the twilight zone! Instead of their morning singing sessions in the morning, they are doing night shows! The research states that, this is due to the morning hustle and bustle which normally starts at 5am, and during night times its quiet and fully lit up with billboards and fluorescent lamps, mimicking the daylight zone, so they have switched their chores to night time! Poor souls!
Can you imagine human beings evolving over the centuries? Homo sapiens with huge trunks like elephants to suck fresh air or maybe even fighting for fresh air! Adapting wings to get over with the rush hour traffic! Or even kangaroo legs to sped fast through the footpaths! Extra set of arms to perform different tasks as in multi-tasking which is one of the requisites of these days!! Extra pairs of ears for your mobile to answer calls, iPod - to unwind from the mad world, mobile conferencing on the move, and of course you don’t need one for switching off from the public!! Extra pair of eyes to concentrate on your work and other chores!! I would leave that your imagination! For all these to function properly, we would of course need extra CPU’s, yes, I am talking about that intelligent bit, the brain! Extra heads! Done! And moving on to the digestive system now, food that automatically gets ingested just by waving your hand over the food, wouldn’t that be nice? This is because the lunch hour has been shrunk from an hour to half an hour, or maybe even because of flexitime (more money for more working hours!). Not sure about the rest of the digestion process! I’m trying to paint a picture of this sort, painting as in canvass painting, hope I would get it right! It would definitely look like some kind of alien, no doubt!
So, are we all evolving into aliens? Do we sit back and relax? Do we let CO2 emissions and pollution and the whatnots carry on? Join in the debate.
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I believe that we have stopped evolving in the proper sense of the term, we are participants no more in the fight for survival, we are the fittest to survive and by that i mean that we probably would be the last species on the road to extinction if any global catastrophe struck. Instead we are changing as you have written for the sake of multi-tasking , for the sake of being more efficient.As we have so many fields of work , i cam imagine homo sapiens branching out into a number of species based on the type of work and the environment something on the lines of the nocturnal underground Morlocks and the terran Eloi from time-machine.In the future we probably will have big eyes with a shorter line of sight to take care of reading multiple screens at a time and probably our blinking rate will diminish , maybe lose the eye-lashes altogether:).If at all we go down this path i hope it's for a temporary period of time until there is no more competition for resources (made possible by space exploration and adapting to alien planets environment, right now still in the realms of sci-fi) and then there would be a change , a evolution in the mental rather than the physical for a greater understanding of life and exploration.
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