QUESTION:
If and when humankind colonize the Red Planet, will the colonists' children
undergo an evolutionary change due to the low gravity and other factors of
the Martian environment? What might these evolutionary changes be like?

ANSWER from Steve Wall on July 1, 1998:
It's a very interesting question.  I'm no expert on evolution, but I
certainly would expect that evolution would begin to adapt to that and many
other changes in environment.  Remember, though, that evolution is a very
slow process, and I would guess that recognizable changes would not occur
for thousands of years at the earliest.