translated from Spanish: How would the face of the man of the future, according to evolution?

city of Mexico.-a group of scientists gave some clues about the way in which the human face in the future will evolve.
While there is no certainty that this will happen, the current human facial appearance is the result of millions of years of evolution and is still evolving.
“(The face) was transformed from a more intimidating face, that was an advantage to compete, to one that was suitable for getting along with others,” said Penny Spikins, Paleolithic archaeologist at the University of York, being the human being the most expressive species of the Land.
Geneticist Adam Wilkins, author of ‘Making Faces.The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face’ study, emphasized that our face is not common in nature: “our eyes are close together and look forward, the human dental arches are disproportionately small relative to the rest of the body: we have smaller teeth. I.e., the physical characteristics of our face are unusual.”
However, the man of the future will have a more developed skull and one Sheepdog much smaller, derived from various factors.
“Of course we are still evolving and changing. The diet is changing all the time and this also changes the shape of the face,”argued David Perrett, of the University of Saint Andrews researcher and author of the book ‘ In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction’, ‘if our skull continues to evolve, the predictable would be to continue with the youthness in cranial proportions, what would lead to a smaller face, with eye orbits proportionately larger, a Chin of smaller dimensions and a cranial Vault most globular and developed. That would be the expected if it continues a process that is known as neoteny, which means reaching the adult stage retain juvenile characteristics,”said Paul Palmqvist, Professor of paleontology of the Department of ecology and geology of the University Malaga.
“So continue an evolution of the face in the sense that we are talking about (more developed and expensive neurocraneos smaller) would require a change in the female pelvis, whose birth canal is already too narrow (hence our babies are born premature, and must” (mature postnatally, which imposes its limits: can not be born a child so early to have no capacity for autonomous respiration or digestion) “, argued Palmqvist.”

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