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The Evolution of Humans in Microgravity

Louis: How far across the universe would humans have to go before we began to evolve into a different species? Louis: If you were consigned spend the rest of your life in microgravity maybe you become some kind of uh shuttle pilots between earth and mars and back again. Louis: When we do have martians who are born on mars from parents who've gone there as astronauts they won't so much of a have evolved but their bodies will have permanently adapted this new environment. louis: They're likely to be quite torn and spindly because their entire skeleton body has developed and grown in one third earth gravity.

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