if monkeys evolved to humans will we evolve to something else?

Question

i was wondering iif we are still evolving after watching ''what makes us human''

Answer 1

Our DNA and RNA sequences are always evolving.
We are still in our infancy as far as evolution goes.
We may very well evolve into something very good if the human race survives its own childhood.

Answer 2

humans have evolved from what we would now describe as a monkey however we were then just as we are now humans .
hence there are still monkeys .

dolphins did not evolve from sharks and visa versa !

all living things evolve to survive its natures law for example if we were to put a hyena on a dessert island with nothing else to breed with other than a poodle its probable that they would mate , understandably this would cause their off springs to show varies irregularities but as nature intends only the strongest would survive and what we would be left with is either an evolved hyena or an evolved poodle depending on which animal the result resembled closest .

human evolution is happening right now , people are generally a lot taller than they used to be simply because they have a better diet . yet as the future progresses we have less use of muscle power , it is a dubious fact that we rely more on brain power now than we ever did , but as technology , rules and regulation increase it seems to me that original thought is becoming less and less necessary (we do what we do because there is no other option)
perhaps we will evolve into little more than an automatism kept alive by the advances made by our predecessors or perhaps we will evolve into telepathic brains with nothing to do but think ?

Answer 3

SUN M does not know what he is talking about. Evolution is a lot more than a theory. It is real and we are evolving. What we will be in a couple of million years is any ones guess. Also we did not evolve from monkeys. Chimps and Orangs are closer to us than monkeys. Man may destroy this earth long before he has a chance to evolve into anything. Every thing changes over time and sometimes it is billions of years. We are not going to be the Hulk and change into green monsters for a long time yet.

Answer 4

Monkeys did not evolve into humans. We both evolved equally from a common ancestor.

(I find it worrying that so many people that answered this question don't understand the basic principles of evolution and natural selection. I recommend a look in a handy biology text book. Its not that complicated and it is a mathematical certainty, not just a theory. There are no examples in the natural world that dis-prove evolution..... just a lot of people who don't understand it.)

Yes of course humans are still evolving. It is a mathematical certainty. Not all humans have the same number of offspring, those people who have more will spread their genes to a larger proportion of the population, those who have fewer offspring will not pass their genes along. The mix of characteristics that make up the human race is dynamic, not static.

It all happens very slowly. If the human race survives for another 100000 years, our decendents would probably be a different species from us i.e. their genes would be sufficiently different from ours that we wouldn't be able to breed with them. A genotype (genes) affect phenotype (the way we look) they would probably look a bit different from us as well.

Answer 5

I don't believe that Humans did evolve from Monkeys, but I do believe that both Monkeys and Humans evolved from the same common source.

Yes we will continue to evolve over the next many millions of years as we have the first many millions of years.

Please bear in mind that religious thought has only been in existance for the briefest of moments relative to everything else.

Answer 6

if monkeys evolved to humans will we evolve to something else?

Monkeys did not evolve from humans and humans did not evolve from monkeys.
Monkeys and Humans share a common ancestor. We then followed different evolutionary paths.Humans are a type of animal called mammals.

Have a blessed day.

Answer 7

Darwin never said humans evolved from monkeys. He said apes. monkeys and humans had a common ancestor which is a very different thing. It's like we had a common root, but now are grown away from each other like branches on a tree. Like those branches, we can never join up again, we have grown too far away.
Yes we are still evolving. If you want to see what our genetic future is look at women - jaws are going to be smaller, faces flatter for instance.

Answer 8

We'll be completely hairless, have larger heads and will be more intelligent. (picture the stereotypical alien, but pink)

Seriously though, what I have put below is not meant to offend, I am simply thinking from a scientific point of view. This isn't my view, but more of a theory. (I'm not racist)

The guy above (a few) is partly right. The weak are surviving too. Evolution is where a mutated gene happens to create a good trait in the animal and that one survives better then it's un-mutated siblings. Problem is, we are helping the weaker versions of humans to survive, with medicine and health issues. Because of this, we could actually be de-evolving. We are allowing the humans with defects to breed (eg fat people, genetically disabled people, stupid people etc), and therefore not killing these defects off. We could be causing the human race to weaken, not strengthen. We could be diversifying too much.

Answer 9

In theory we should all ways evolve further, however with the intervention of modern medicine etc we are unlikely to evolve much, evolution is "survival of the fittest" We continue to have wisdom teeth despite the fact we dint really have room in our mouths dentist means its no going to kill us off therefore the redundant/bad trait remains. Some of us do have space though but we are a small in number I'm told. Asthma should kill people and as pollution rises we should by rights evolve to survive it. Medical intervention means that people with severe asthma can live and breed so the trait remains. What it would take is a cataclysmic event and then we may start to evolve properly again

Answer 10

Have a look at "Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future" by Dougal Dixon for his ideas about how humans may evolve to changing environments on Earth.