Scientists reveal what they predict humans will look like in 1,000 years and some changes might shock you – LADbible

To make sure you never miss out on your favourite NEW stories, we’re happy to send you some remindersClick ‘OK’ then ‘Allow’ to enable notificationsLAD EntertainmentLAD StoriesJoe Harker1,000 years ago, back in good old 1025, Egypt was busy with a slave rebellion in their capital, a man named William the Fat was discussed as a possible candidate to be King of Italy (he didn’t get the job in the end), and Bolesław the Brave became King of Poland for 60 days before coming down with a bad case of dead.Quite a lot has happened since then, too much to go into proper detail here, but the way people looked and lived has also changed significantly.Just imagine what will happen in the next 1,000 years and what we’ll look like then.AdvertNot you and I, dear reader, unless we can figure out immortality within the next few decades, we’ll both be long gone by the time 3025 rolls around.However, if you don’t fancy imagining things, then listen to evolutionary geneticist Professor Mark Thomas, who told the Daily Mail what to expect from human development in this millennium.The expert suggested that people might end up getting a bit shorter.AdvertHuman height depends on a number of factors, and a study from Oxford University found that better diets times of steady food production tended to have an impact on the average height.Professor Thomas said that ‘one theory among many’ has some experts suggesting that shorter people are able to have kids sooner, so if more short people are having kids they’re more likely to have short children.On the other hand he said this theory hadn’t been tested in population studies, so don’t feel smug about standing tall above your descendants.AdvertIt turns out that when Busted sang about the guy who’d been to the year 3,000, they might have been more correct than they knew about your great-great-great granddaughter being ‘pretty fine’.That’s because Professor Thomas has suggested that since women are more able to choose who they partner up with, it’ll be more attractive guys who are more likely to father children.Meanwhile, Professor Robert Brooks suggested that the brains of the future could be smaller as we won’t need to be quite as smart once computers are running everything, as horrifying as that might sound to some.There have been studies on the brain mass of animals before and after domestication, which found that the brains of sheep, cows and dogs got smaller afterwards, so if we fully domesticate ourselves through technology, perhaps that could happen.AdvertAs a result, humanity 1,000 years from how could be a bunch of dumb, sexy short kings.Then again, who could accurately predict what changes in the world and society will occur for the next 1,000 years, and the impact it’d have on what we look like?Topics: Science, TechnologyJoe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He’s also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]@MrJoeHarkerAdvertAdvertAdvert

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