Submitted by Coloss260 t3_124tg0f in Showerthoughts
As science and history states, before being Homo Sapiens, the Humankind was populated with different races of Humans, Homo Neanderthal to provide an example.
Homo Sapiens took the lead of the evolution process, and became the dominant race of Humans while other races slowly faded into genes in our today's biology.
However, with the birth of phones and other digitalised forms of interacting with objects, Humans biologically follow a natural process of evolution, and it already started for our newly born generations, where our fingers show more precision to interact with things, and our bodies tend to be less muscular than it could be in the medieval eras for example.
In a not so late future, newly born generations will be, logically, even more precise with their fingers, maybe even have slightly longer index, and will slowly but certainly become the dominant race of Humans, slowly erasing the Homo Sapiens: Homo Digitalis (I think that's the name I read somewhere). I'm not an expert in biology and the process of evolution, but I think like that is a possible and predictable future as a living being that is constantly evolving to adapt to it's environment, and this environment being mostly composed of finger-usable machines and objects.
dclxvi616 t1_je0q30g wrote
Wow, I did not think our finger precision on cell phones was so essential to reproductive fitness that this would be expressed through natural selection in less than a generation.