On Aug 11, 11:43*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:

Although humanity would not change anywhere near that much via natural
genetic mutation in only one million years, the disturbing thing is that
given the extremely fast rate of advance in genetic research nowadays,
you could probably create something like that in the not too distant
future...say what? One hundred years?

I expect a more modest degree of cranial augmentation... which would
be necessitated by vastly increasing the human lifespan. If we didn't
become more intelligent, we would be bored with a longer lifespan.

But with evolution under human control, it would do the things we
consciously want - and so, rather than our bodies atrophying, they
would presumably be made to conform to current ideals. Thus, think of
muscular and ruggedly handsome men and beautiful women... except for
looking as though they suffered from hydrocephaly. But it's all brain,
not water, up there.

John Savard