What would humans evolve into in the next say million years, We have come a long way in the last 100,000 years

Question

Dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years but don't appear to have eveolved into a language speaking, culture creating species. It took an ape descendent about 200,000 years to evolve into something like us. Was the dinosaur genotype incapable of giving rise to a human-like intelligent species? Also we seem to have come far very quickly. Is there any limit to what our genotype can give rise to, assuming of course that we don't self destruct.

Answer 1

Have you got something in mind.......

Answer 2

Assuming that we don't self-destruct and that we haven't/won't damage the earth to the point where we can't survive on it, and assuming that nothing like another large asteroid hits the earth and alters the climate to the point where we can't survive...Assuming all that, there is unfortunately no way that science can predict what direction humans will evolve. We don't and can't know what selective pressures which will be acting on our genome, and so we can't even begin to properly guess how we'll evolve in the future.

Realistically, it would not have predicted that we would have evolved to our current state, anyway. After all, who would have guessed 65 million years ago, that some squirrel sized rodent would evolve into humans? It's fairly straightforward to trace an evolutionary past, but impossible to predict an evolutionary future.

Answer 3

Sorry, I can't answer this question for what I could understand you evolve from some sort of gorilla or monkey and believe you are going to become a cyberrobot in the next millenium. I think we have no link at all because I believe I have been created like a human being. I don't know whether my ancestral grand father was really name Adam & Eve but I am quite happy as I am and am not interested to evolve to some sort of futuristic creatures you actually have in your infertile imagination.

Answer 4

We will be the organism that could live witout oxygen and do not need eat. Because the next million years, the earth is totallu polluted. And there are no more space to live. So that is the reason I want the human evolved to the no need O2 and eat. We can live in the outer space. And made the Mars as the next homeland.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, Good evolution only works when you have survival of the fittest...Over time it has a tendency to cater towards the fittest... However, with humans now taking care of the weak and of the infirmed, you don’t really have a weeding out of bad traits... In fact, you are promoting bad traits... Think about it... Who on average has more children...? College Grads or High School Drop outs on Welfare. Who is more likely to wear a condom thereby condemning their sperm from not reaching the Goal...? Dropouts or Grads? I think that with technology making it easier not to have to think, to be fit or have to do any real thinking anymore... That in a few million years we will basically be Inbred White Trash/Ghetto Trash with Mullets and or Corn Rows... Moreover, the few surviving Smart People will have to move under ground just to get away from the idiots on the surface...

Answer 6

Actually, it's pretty scary. animals are evolving all the time because of selective pressures on their gene pools- ie. survival of thee fittest means that the weaker of the species is wiped out and the stronger animals more suited to their surroundings survives to pass their genes on to the next generation.
However, humans don't have those selective pressures because we don't die if we are too slow to run away from a lion... or too weak to survive a cold winter. All the stuff we have invented from central heating to spectacles mean that if we have a genetic weakness, we aren't wiped out and are genes are still passed on. Think about it- a few thousand years ago anyone you know who wears glasses would not have survived because glasses weren't invented back then and they wouldn't have been able to spot food to hunt and eat.
So maybe the human race is actually getting weaker...

Answer 7

What are you talking about????? Do you honestly believe that we evolved from soup or a rock. Stop it, you're killing me! There is no evidence to say that dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago, they were still walking the earth 2,000 years ago and there are still some alive, yes the ones that live in the sea. Anyhow dinosaurs only got their name in 1851, prior to that they were called dragons. The name dinosaurs came about to discredit the bible and give way to a new religion - evolution. I choose not to believe that my ancestors evolved from soup. Stop believing the childrens books that begin with 'Millions of years ago', they may as well be saying 'Once upon a time........ erm yes, a fairy tale coming up!

Answer 8

Well, first of all, what do you consider "language" to be? There are many species of animals that communicate using sound patterns. And, you could argue that animals that live in herds or large groups have their own culture.

I did, however, have a teacher in high school who believed that humans would evolve into what we today believe to be aliens (specifically, grays).

Answer 9

I think that we will be not much changed. Previous evolution was driven by environmental pressure: there were distinct survival advantages in increased strength or intelligence. With modern technology, these pressures have been very much reduced. Also, species differentiation occurs in isolated populations, and with modern transportation, there isn't much isolation any more.

Answer 10

I actually think we wont change as much as you might think.

Creatures evolve to suit their surroundings, and we have it pretty easy now.

Maybe if we increase our space exploration our bodies will adapt to zreo gravity. It only takes a few months in space for the muscles to start wasting.

Answer 11

Communication will evolve. Languages merge.