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John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist, regularly makes the point [0] that human evolution has accelerated enormously in the last 50k years.

Lactase metabolism is new, in the last 19k years. European skin colours and blue eyes appear to be very recent too, maybe 3.5k years.

Almost certainly there are all kinds of super interesting human evolutionary changes that are occurring now, with our huge population that won’t be visible for thousands of years…

[0] at least since this https://johnhawks.net/weblog/our-new-paper-on-why-human-evol...

[yard2010]

This makes me sad every time - I know for a fact that mountains are evolving, but in my lifetime the mountains are just mountains. Still. Not changing a bit unless I'm looking really really close (which means that it's not the mountain that changes, but merely its surface).. So the same with humans.

I don't care about living forever, I just want to see what happens in 10k years. Just out of curiosity.

[dwaltrip]

There’s a really great sci fi book that touches on this, I’m blanking on the name. They can “bobble” up regions of space which basically freezes time for a duration in that region. Highly recommend.

[joak]

Vernor Vinge - Marooned in Realtime

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And, spoiler alert, it’s not good, really!