humans evolving?

Question

how will humans evolve in the future? if the evolution of humans will be affected by technology how will we evolve if we didn't have technology?

Answer 1

I see it as not being good, everything is instant and that is what we expect.
I see humanity beginning to need laws that will cause us to slow down so we can reconnect with each other face to face instead of the superficial way it is now.
We have been evolving for 1000's of years as we will be still and forever

Answer 2

> humans evolving?
Yes.
> how will humans evolve in the future?
We don't know. But, take a look around -- the women who are having children are the ones who determine the future of the human race. Women with careers have fewer children than those who don't. Consider the possibility that in the future, women will be less likely to want careers.
> if the evolution of humans will be affected by technology
It's a little too early to say. There's a possibility that genetic diseases such as sickle cell anemia will be wiped out. Then again, maybe not.

Answer 3

Biologically, humans are about done evolving. Barring some super plague that wipes out a sizable percentage of humanity, humans are about done. We choose our mating partners based on traits that aren't standardized across the species, so we can't really expect that any standardized traits will appear across humanity.

Technology will continue to expand the disease-fighting potential of medicine, and more diseases will crop up. So without technology, humanity would probably eventually have evolved with fewer diseases affecting it, like other wild animals. Of course, humanity without technology is like the earth without an atmosphere. We just wouldn't be humans if we didn't have the capacity to create and use technology.

Answer 4

Well if you consider genetic technology as technology then we could evolve really quickly if the govermnment allows us to use some genetic methods out there. Families who are trying to conceive could feasibly pick out the traits that they want in their children in the future. They call them designer children. If the parents want a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child for example, they will soon be able to "genetically shop" for one. This technique, provided if it is approved by the government, could drastically alter how humans "evolve." I'm sure the evolution process will go much quicker in the future, which isn't always a good thing.

Answer 5

There is absloutely no way to tell how the human race will evolve in the future. If anything, technology only interferes with evolution.

Answer 6

Yes, humans are evolving even now. We're currently seeing babies born HIV positive who are able to toss off that infection. Those individuals are far more likely to survive to breeding age than individuals that succumb to the infection.

If there are any other traits that those individuals happen to share, those traits also go along for the ride into the population whether that be black skin, blond hair, 6 toes on one foot, or whatever.

The bit about mutations "not adding information" is creationist claptrap and has nothing at all to do with science.

Answer 7

Evolution sometimes uses reproductive isolation (a group within a species that can't mate for some reason with the main group). I see space travel as a possible means of reproductive isolation in humans. People traveling on long voyages might be a branch of the evolutionary tree going forward. The environmental conditions they would face (surely different form earth conditions - whatever they may be) would place different selective pressures on the space humans....

Answer 8

we have evolved nicely without technology to date, why shouldn't we continue to do so?
If anything, we will have to evolve further BECAUSE of technology, not with the assistance of it. For instance, as global warming persists, (due to chemical and industrial technological reasons) the fittest will have to evolve to survive an ice age, or deadly heat, or drought. Our inner systems will have to evolve to offset the damage done by food chemicals etc.
Technology is not always our friend.

Answer 9

humans wont evolve and they havent been evolving. so what makes you think they will?? i think there would already be some change if we were actually evolving.

Answer 10

well since the only real mutations we have seen are detrimental or a loss of information is may take a real long time for us to see anything or we were created and will stay the same. up to you