What does this have to do with Urban Green, Permaculture and Sustainability? Its an exercise in imagination. Imagination is crucial for innovation. So off on a side road we go tonight.
In addition to the older Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus and Australopiths, there have been eight or so different Homo species existing on our planet that we are aware of over the past 300,000 years. That is just plain science, real facts.
I worked hard today, mentally and physically for me and now I wanted to play a little.
So for fun and more into the realm of Tuesday night science fiction, I jotted down what species Homo sapiens may evolve into in the next several centuries. My imagined species are:
Homo expectus: H. expectus comprised most of the human population in the 21st and 22nd centuries. Homo expectus had evolved to expect that all they needed came out of an ups box or off a retail aisle. Homo expectus began evolving away from H. sapiens once they forgot how to make things with their own hands and tthose beginnigns generally coincided with the openings of the first mega grocery and merchandise stores. H. expectus rapidly disappeared from the planet once the SHTF.
Homo adapteous var. communialeous: H. adapteous still exists scattered, apparently in growing numbers, across the earth, found in small groups, individual huts and in loosely organized communities. H.adapteous seemed to survive the stressful SHTF periods by rolling with the punches, finding opportunity in adversity, studying and respecting nature, sharing, cooperating, partying with and working alongside other similar SHTF mutants. Some of the more innovative post-apocalypse inventions have come out of this side branch of Homo evolution.
Homo pitchforkian: H. pitchforkian evolved out of desperate H. sapiens, groups with no where to live, nothing to eat (except cake) and those who had to watch their children whither away without medical care, education or sustenance. This side branch of H. sapiens was almost completely destroyed by the authoritarian H. sapiens regimes who directed atomic fury at H. pitchforkian after hungry mobs began ravaging gated upscale communities. H. pitchforkian retreated to the hinterland and still are considered an intermittent threat to post SHTF efforts to make the nations great again.
Homo digitalomous: H. digitalomous is an anomaly species, one with little resemblance to their ancestor H. sapiens. H. digitalomous are characterized by colossus size cranial cavities with hot, dense grey matter and multiple large glazed eyes randomly scattered across their faces. H. digitalomous exhibits only short stubby limbs and strange metallic umbilical cords that plug into digital computer chips. H. digitalomous are mainly farmed by other species for information system use. H. digitalomous seem happiest when they are plugged in.
Homo nomaskous: H. nomaskous was an overall angry species that quickly became extinct along with most H. fantasiaea after the big plague of 2020, unable to resist exposing themselves to the virus.
Homo prepperarian: Mostly a solitary species at first H. prepperarian hybridized with H. adapteous var. communialeous to create a hybrid known for adaption, cooperation, sharing, wildcrafting, seed saving and especially for the art of the knife and bow. This group of post H. sapiens evolutes continues to survive and in some communities, thrive.
Homo permaculturoux: H. permaculturoux is another side branch of Homo species who have focused on nature interactions. Over time many developed features of the plants and animals they tended for generations, possibly a result of intertribe breeding. H. permaculturoux holds much of the earth’s new wealth, a result of food, seed, produce and animal husbandry commerce. H. permaculturoux has been recently forming allegiances with H. autocratoux, hiring them for protection from H. eatorbeeaten. At one time many thought the answers to earth’s challenges would come from H. permaculturoux however this species obsession with the Myth of Scarcity and hoarding tendencies have put into doubt whether any Homo species is destined to survive in the long term.
Homo eatorbeeatenarian: H. eatorbeeaten is another evolutionary branch off the H. sapiens line whom H. autocratoux used to exterminate H. pitchforkian. H. eatorbeeaten sustained significant losses in the conflicts and were ultimately shunned by most other Homo evolutes. Though H. eatorbeeaten were a powerful group for decades during the SHTF they eventually suffered from mass cardiac infarctions. They just could not chill enough to keep from having heart attacks.
Homo hippieoux: H. hippieoux are a quiet species, astonishingly found amicably existing among most all other Homo species. They are considered a smelly lower caste but tolerated for their beautiful art and music.
Homo autocratoux: H. autocratoux are the new Homo species destined to hold power over other Homo species; they are ruthless, manipulative and the one species that has seen brain capacity actually shrink. It is speculated that H.autocratoux are ruler figureheads funded and directed by the new rich and powerful class of successful H. permaculturoux. H. permaculturoux affords an elevated lifestyle to H.autocratoux in exchange for political favors.
Homo fantasiaea: part of H. sapiens great downfall was that many believed reality did not exist in the present moment but in a fairy tale land after death. Unfortunately this belief led to the trashing of the earth since it was the afterlife that was more important. The resulting pollution resulted in mutations to H. sapiens that resulted in H. fantasiaea, a new species that rejected science in favor of one or more of hundreds of mythologies concerning everything from eclipses to strange bugs. H. fantasiaea died out quickly following the great plague because they believed the mythman was going to protect them from the virus.
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