The human race will split into two subspecies starting in a thousand years, much as H.G. Wells described in The Time Machine (1895), according to a British biologist. It'll be Morlocks and Eloi:
The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.
Now, this shouldn't fall into the life imitates Gothic category, strictly speaking, since Wells' novel is a classic of science fiction. But the fears embedded within the Morlock scenes are scary as heck. And at Infocult, we always pay attention to cannibalism, even across related sub-species.
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