Will we all look the same someday?

[LONDONER]

Like the blue people of Kentucky, one day, genetics might cause humans to blend into a single shade, something like Brazilians.

http://www.livescience.com/23277-will-hu...tification

[LJay]

Well who knows, but if it makes it possible for all guys to wear those Braziliam bathing suits then I'm for it.

[Radbot42]

This reminds me of that Southpark episode where the future was overpopulated, and people were coming from the future to get jobs and save money for their future families.

It ended in everyone having lots of gay sex to lower the amount of humans in the future.

[Emiliano]

That was an interesting article about the role of transportation on the gene pool and the inbred blue people. It makes me wonder about the implications of that too, when the majority of people are a result of hundreds of generations of mixing different racial and ethnic lineages -what traits may be lost, what diseases and things we might be more vulnerable to as a whole...

It's also cool to think of the growing identity of being multi-racial and how that would evolve over time until it's the norm, if this is really the path humans are going down.

[LJay]

[MENTION=19889]Radbot42[/MENTION] and [MENTION=21558]Emiliano[/MENTION], both interesting comments. Any further comments out there folks?

Emiliano, I guess we could say there is already a sort of trend. Is anybody here scientifically aware of how it is going?

[Emiliano]

Emiliano, I guess we could say there is already a sort of trend. Is anybody here scientifically aware of how it is going?

In terms of interracial children and multi racial identities? It's definitely happening, I'm multiracial, so was my dad. I'm not Brazilian, but I guess I'm the future this article is talking about.

I like reading things on how multiracial people form racial identities and all that kind of stuff. When it comes to scientific interest in it though, most studies seem to be limited to multiracial people who are part white. But there is definitely a lot of writing out there about being a multiracial person and growing numbers of people who identify as such.

You could check this out if you're curious: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/06/1...n-america/