What Will We Look Like 10 Years From Now?

Hormones to delay ageing, soundwaves to reverse sagging and a to-die-for caramel complexion. How will we really look in ten, 50 or even 500 years from now? (Spoiler alert: it's good news)

- Cassie Steer

2016. The year of the selfie, if last year’s stats were anything to go by. Twenty-four billion of them were uploaded to Google’s photo app alone – just the tip of the #me iceberg. We’re showing off and scrutinising our faces more than ever before. And worshipping the same facial symmetry goals (which probably explains why so many women on Insta seem to look like Megan Fox).

But the way we look is changing and evolutionary theorists have an idea of how our faces are likely to evolve. Dr Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) forsees 7ft giants with life spans of 120 years, who will develop hairless skin, large eyes, pert breasts and perfectly symmetrical features 1,000 years from now. Which sounds kind of scary (the giant bit) and amazing (the pert breasts bit) all at once.

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