Could we end up like some of our feathered friends? Photo: Alamy Stock Photo
By
Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
The perils of climate change are well known, but rising sea levels could also alter human evolution, scientists have claimed.
Rising sea levels could force communities to live in underwater or semi-aquatic towns which could change out physiology.
Dr Matthew Skinner, a paleoanthropologist from the University of Kent,
claims that humans could evolve to have webbed hands and feet and less
body hair so they could move quickly through the water...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12096103/Humans-could-evolve-webbed-feet-if-sea-levels-rise-scientist-claims.html
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