10 Ways Humans Would Look If We Had Evolved Differently

10 Ways Humans Would Look If We Had Evolved Differently

1 The Vacuumorph

We have already seen what humans would look like after evolving to live on other planets. What would be the next step?In fact, the ultimate step would be humans adapted to live in the vacuum of outer space, the most hostile environment for life. Incredibly, the human imagination has already theorized about the appearance of such a creature. And the result comes from a work of fiction by the Scottish paleontologist and writer Dougal Dixon.A few centuries in the future, genetic engineering would allow the alteration of humans to adapt them to specific conditions. To build spacecraft directly in orbit, we would create humanoid beings called vacuumorphs. These beings would be adapted to survive in the vacuum of space without gravity and without any special protection.[10]The body of the vacuumorph would be covered by a spherical shell, rigid and impermeable, to protect the internal organs from the lack of pressure. This creature would still have arms and legs (although severely atrophied) as well as prehensile feet to walk on the hulls of spaceships.The vacuumorph would have eyes, too. However, they would be protected from the vacuum by a “sealed lens” and tissue folds to cover them to hide them from solar radiation.The vacuumorph would also develop new organs, like a third lung to store extra oxygen and a fourth one to accumulate carbon dioxide and other waste. Then the creature would eject such waste under pressure to propel itself through the vacuum of space.Although this fictional species would be genetically modified and unable to reproduce naturally, vacuumorphs give us an idea of the radical aspect we would have if our millennia of history had developed outside the Earth.

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