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Michael Wall
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·Nov 9, 2018

Orange Skin, Thick Bones, and All the Other Ways the Human Body Could Change on Mars

Elevated radiation could cause higher mutation rates, speeding up the evolutionary process on the red planet — Going to Mars will change us — and not just in a touchy-feely, metaphysical way. Over time, we should expect a fair bit of evolutionary divergence between Mars settlers and the human population on Earth, according to Rice University biologist Scott Solomon, who examined this possibility in his 2016 book…

Space

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Orange Skin, Thick Bones, and Other Ways Mars Could Change Our Bodies
Orange Skin, Thick Bones, and Other Ways Mars Could Change Our Bodies
Space

6 min read

Michael Wall

Michael Wall

114 Followers

Senior writer at Space.com and author of Out There, a book about the search for alien life that will be published on Nov. 13, 2018.

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