the future of human evolution theme
Featured is a hypothetical future direction that human evolution might take.
Examples
A time traveler was surprised to find that the human race had diverged into two distinct species by the year 802,701 in "The Time Machine" (1960).
19 total · 2 choice · 9 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Time Machine (2002) | choice | Alexander traveled 800,000 years into Earth's future to find that humankind had divided into two distinct species: the primitive and passive Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. |
| novel: The Time Machine (1895) | choice | By the year 802,701 AD, the human race had differentiated into two distinct species: the small, elegant, childlike Eloi, and the ape-like troglodyte Morlocks who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. |
| movie: Goldengirl (1979) | major | Serafin was using Goldine to try to prove some kind of theory that humans were evolving to get bigger and stronger overtime, although the details were never coherently explained. |
| movie: Official Denial (1993) | major | The grand revelation of the film is that the Gray aliens were really humans from the future, implying that humans would evolve into Gray alien-looking beings. |
| movie: The Time Machine (1960) | major | By the year 802,701, humans diverged into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. |
| movie: The Time Machine (1978) | major | In the distant future, humans divided into two species, the passive Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. |
| play: Man and Superman (1905) | major | As Shaw notes in "Epistle Dedicatory", and the title of the works hints at in invoking Nietzshe's "Superman", the work is related to the direction in which evolution might be taking us. |
| shortstory: The Last Man (1929) | major | The story is set in a future where the women of Earth killed all the men, reproduced human life using technology, and evolved into "sexless, tall, angular, narrow-hipped, flat-breasted and unbeautiful" beings as a result. |
| shortstory: The Machine Man of Arthadia (1927) | major | The time traveled explained in much detail about how his species had evolved from human beings. |
| shortstory: The Revolt of the Pedestrians (1928) | major | We saw a future where there was a bifurcation in human evolution. One line of humans had evolved tiny stubs for legs that suited their car riding habits. The other remained like us. |