What's the best way to improve the human body? We humans would look considerably different - both inside and out - if evolution had designed the human body to work better and last longer. Dr S Jay Olshansky of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois in Chicago and two other researchers recently speculated in Scientific American that a human "better …
I always thought that humans would be greatly improved by crossing them with Kangaroos. Our marsupial friends are already bipedal and complete with little hands, so the transition wouldn't be too alien and we'd still be able to carry out most of the manual tasks we currently engage in.
Their form would provide us with a built-in pocket and a handy tail to take the strain off our feet when they're no seats left in the pub. The increased speed and endurance that would come with Kangaroo style hopping is just what we need to put a halt to our ever-increasing reliance on environmentally unsound vehicular transport.
It would also do wonders for the sport of boxing.
Yes the longest lived things reproduce by cells.
But working like a Redwood or a Coral Reef is silly.
The next best is a land tortise, skip the extra ribs and
jump to a full shell.
Separate the air and food intake pipes completely.
Move the ligament attachements out.
Some baseball pitchers get the "Tommy Johns" surgery.
A third or fourth leg to add stability.
However it was our long range efficiency that helped
us spread across the globe.
Many of his suggestions look like Cro-magnon.
Why did we beat them out.
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