What will be the next big leap of human evolution?

Question

Will we able to evolve into animals with no arms and no legs but only mental beings that can move objects with their minds? Will we evolve into animals with some sorts of protections against the sun as the sun gets hotter? Will we evolve into ocean creatures because the earth will eventually be flooded with all the melting Ice Glaciers?

Answer 1

Animals evolve because of environmental stimuli. Our technology protects us from that. I think if we are going to evolve, it will be of our own doing through genetic manipulation.

Answer 2

You're thinking too biologically. H. Sapiens has already transcended biological evolution and has been evolving memes rather than genes for quite a long time. A meme is basically a new concept or idea that furthers man's survival competencies. Our big brains and our language abilities make this possible. Science and technology are creating new memes at an astonishing clip. New memes make things like bows and arrows, animal breeding, mechanized warfare, space vehicles, and computers possible.

At least one leading inventor, Ray Kurzweil, in his recent book, "The Singularity is Near", makes a very strong case that the next major evolutionary step for humans is the complete joining of the carbon-based biological human with the computational power of our silicon-based information technology. He adds to that mix the health benefits of future nanotechnology and comes up with "the singularity", a creature part biological human, part computer, and able to live indefinitely due to self-healing properties gained from nano-materials.

Answer 3

A species evolves when a trait appears that helps that species survive and when traits that appear that hinder the species survival are allowed to end.

I'm not trying to be gory or cold or anything else here. I'm not trying to justify Hitler and a super race nor am I trying to propose selective breeding. I'm just trying to explain what I understand of evloution. I could well be wrong. So, to continue.

With modern medicine and technology prolonging the life of people who would have otherwise died before they had a change to have children, evolution has been thwarted. The genetic trait is allowed to continue in the gene pool. It is not un-selected for by nature and the "survival of the fittest" rule.

This is called genetic loading. As time and generations continue this genetic loading will get worse and worse. The human race could suffer for it.

Answer 4

As long as we're able to survive we'll continue to explore and educate ourselves and evolve into increasingly more intelligent beings. That quality will only be reserved for the upper intelligent life of our species. Survival of the fittest and smartest. Our destruction as this species(human) is inevitable due to our war like, territorial, destructive nature to be superior. We're also wasteful, not in tune with our earths needs so eventually it will destroy us, On another front it will just dry up and we'll all perish, because our planet will be just like Mars or Venus a Lifeless rock. Life will start all over from scratch. That's only if there's anything left over to start it with. Our intelligence will reach a plateau and that's where it will stay. We are creatures of this planet and we've only been here a very short time. All these scenerios are possible. Our on Star the Sun could kill us today or tomorrow. I'm just happy that I was chosen to be here for this short time.

Answer 5

I don't see any gross physical changes or amazing mental powers, but I do think that humans will evolve the ability to process multiple sensory inputs simultaneously, on the order of being able to carry on a conversation while listening to two different sets of sounds, one with each ear, and understanding all of it. We do some of this already; gestalt theory explains part of that, but I am suggesting a higher order of complexity.

I realize this is a bit complicated and convoluted, but then again, we would have a great deal of difficulty understanding humans that have evolved in this manner.

Answer 6

Evolution does no longer ensue in leaps. that is sluggish. because the first answer exhibits, if a organic catastrophe takes position, it may % issues up. by employing organic catastrophe, I propose tidal waves and floods which wipe out all of us yet human beings living at intense altitude, or an endemic which kills ninety 9% of people in the international, leaving in ordinary words remoted wallet of humanity like Iceland and the Falklands. A nuclear conflict ought to do the same, leaving in ordinary words a small pool of DNA to carry on. Any characteristics, both effective or deleterious, ought to obviously then change into extra commonly used contained in the inhabitants. If survival became simply by resistance to the ailment, or to radiation led to harm, then those must succeed characteristics. If survival became simply by isolation on my own, then this does no longer bode properly, as eventually the ailment, or radiation etc, ought to impact the inhabitants. So, in precis, large leaps require multiple deaths, consisting of befell with the asteroid sixty 5 million years in the past wiping out dinosaurs.

Answer 7

Supress your imagination. You will evolve but not into that. evolution is working on a big time scale. Not the scale that you imagine. It is a million years for an animal to evolve. You will die by then. The genetics will not be your answer. You can mutate but you must mutate into a possibility that will be fiting for survival. The possibilities for survival are small. You must imagine that you can evolve like you can ask. But you can't. It is quite not what you thought. Mutation is random.

Answer 8

We will be fat, lazy and stay indoors all the time. We will believe everything we hear and not second guess it. Our lives will be governed by individuals who think that one theory is enough and anything different is considred a crime. We will buy all of our supplies online and have robots deliver b/c the planet is to polluted to go outside. Our guns will be taken and all defected people will be eliminated. Think Hitler's Germany meets "The day after tomorrow".

Answer 9

We will learn, through technology and teaching, to use the rest of our brain. That part that we supposedly don't use. I hope that we learn to work smarter not harder. Evolve into our surroundings. Grow houses to live in, and drive in flying venus fly traps, telepath home, born with knowledge in order to gain more/rather than wasting time reteaching. Something crazy to look forward to.

Answer 10

We will not have time to evolve into anything. Something like that takes millions of years. However, with global warming impacting us right now, we need to take action immediately in order to avoid the collapse of our civilization.