evolution of people?

Question

oh my what will we look like an a million years?????

please dont waste all your time writting huge answers cause i probably wont read them, sorryyyy!!!!

Answer 1

big blobs with telepathic powers!

Answer 2

A million years is too much time to make forecast of our environment. There could be impact with an asteroid, full blown out disease, and even the destruction by alien race. We ourselves might do the damage with a full scale planetary war with the use of weapons of mass destruction. All these events would pose an unpredictable evolution to mankind (if any).

On the other hand, if we consider nothing so drastic we can't handle happens, then two completely different things will occur with the evolution phenomenon. The first one, which has already been happening for some time, is the diminishing influence of natural selection. The second, which should start being observed soon, is the genetic engineering of human beings (designer's babies).

Natural selection still occurs in the human species, especially within poorer regions, where civilization is less felt. However, we observe that the intervention of medicine, government actions (such as social security) and humanitarian efforts compensate for condition which would otherwise imply in the removal of traits from the gene pool. This means that "short-comings" likes bad eyesight, lower IQ, muscular weakness, susceptibility to some disease, which otherwise would mean that the carrier of the gene would have a low chance reproducing and passing the gene on, no longer are "naturally selected out". What does this means for your question, there could be a greater diversity within the human species. Very low and very tall, very smart and very dumb etc.

On the other hand, baby design technology should soon be available, at least for the richest part of mankind. There is already an ethical arguement for it related to the lack of natural selection. Genetic engineering would replace natural selection and prevent deseases and "deffects" to be passed on to future generations. Of course that people and nations with more resources will get better engineering and eventually "improvements". Unlike evolution governed by natural selecion, planned evolution (we can call it intelligent design just to be annoying) can be very fast because it does not depend on chance and the passing down of new traits through diect bloodline.

So one, rather somber, forecast would be: In rich nations, the population would be very tall, strong, proportional/simetrical (beautiful), intelligent and healthy. In poorer countries, the population would be very diversed but global charity would assure a minimum health genetic. This suggests that there will be castes in the future and maybe a slit into two different species. Oddly enough, the poorer - being more diversed - may actually survive a pandemia.

Well... not really an answer... :- (

Answer 3

The future has always had a very special place in philosophy and, in general, in the human mind. This is true largely because human beings invariably need a forecast of events that will occur. It is perhaps possible to argue that the evolution of the human brain is in great part an evolution in cognitive abilities necessary to forecast the future, i.e. abstract imagination, logic and induction. Imagination permits us to “see” a plausible model of a given situation without observing it (therefore mitigating risks). Logical reasoning allows one to predict inevitable consequences of actions and situations and therefore gives useful information about future events. Induction permits the association of a cause with consequences, a fundamental notion for every forecast of future time.

Despite these cognitive instruments for the comprehension of future, the stochastic nature of many natural and social processes has made forecasting the future a long-sought aim of many people and cultures throughout the ages. Figures claiming to see into the future, such as prophets and diviners, have enjoyed great consideration and even social importance in many past and present communities. Whole pseudo-sciences, like astrology and cheiromancy originated with the aim of forecasting the future. Much of physical science too can be read as an attempt to make quantitative and objective predictions about events.

The Future also forms a prominent subject for religion. Often religions offer prophecies about life after death and also about the end of the world. The conflict in Christian religion between the knowledge of the future by God and the freedom of human will leads, for example, to the doctrine of predestination.

Answer 4

Very likely dead.
But if we do survive we may continue with the same tendencies we have before like reduction of sensetivity to smell, increased brain function, lack of need for manual labour may cause the limbs to atrophate, who knows?
It is also possible there will be no great change at least not in looks. They way we look has a functional purpose but it is also for show. That is, the more atractive you are to the opposite sex the more likely you are to pass your genes on to the next generation. And the more you look like the stuff the see in science fiction the less atractive you are to the opposite sex (at least from our current prespective). Than may change and then again it may not.
Also, we humans create our own artaficial enviorment, which slows down the evolution procces (at least on us. The rate of animal extintion nowadays is 100 times the natural rate, thanks to our efforts).

Answer 5

Provided that we do survive, I believe that our bodies will shrink and our minds will grow. We will most probably become cyborgs interfacing seamlessly with AI creations. It may also be possible that we will cease to exist as we exist today, perhaps it will be like the Matrix.

Answer 6

humans will be dead in less than 7 years