What is the next step of evolution for our race?

Answer 1

Really impossible to know, since we don't know what sort of selective pressure we're going to be going up against. Right now humans have very, very successfully exploited their ecological niche, so there just isn't much selective pressure to change. The only way we'd see any "rapid" change (as in the next few thousands of years) would be if there were a severe change in environmental stimuli that overrode our ability to adapt to it with clothing, shelter, medicine, etc. Here are some very simplified examples:

If the world got really, really hot, then perhaps people who are tall, thin, and very dark skinned would prevail--everyone else would overheat or die of skin cancer.

Alternatively, if the world got very cold, then the short people with more body fat would be better off.

If a very virulent disease surpassed our ability to develop vaccines or other control measures against it, then people with immune systems better able to deal with it would be selected for.

The possibilities are endless, depending on what future hurdles we face as a species. There are some species so ideally adapted to their environment (like sharks) that they have not changed in millions of years. If their environment changes in the future, then selective pressure would again be applied, and the species would evolve in response to the pressure.

As for the question above, regarding why monkeys are not still developing into humans: this is a common misconception that assumes that humans are the "top" of evolution--that everything on earth is evolving towards some sort of ideal, and that ideal is us. This is not the case, however. Traits are not selected for against some abstract ideal--they are selected when they deal better with a certain environment than others. Monkeys are very suited for their current environment--there is no advantage for them to evolve human-like traits. Alternatively, even if they *are* currently evolving more human-like traits, the change would be too slow for us to register it anyways.

Answer 2

I believe that with the coming of technology evolution has become dormant. The theory is that mutations that work--that is, that promote survival--stick (very simplified view of evolution), but since anytime something comes that poses a problem for humanity--weather, food supply, etc--we just build a machine or whatever and be done with it. No need for evolution.

Now that doesn't mean that evolution of the mind may not be necessary, to deal with our technical advances, etc., so maybe there. Maybe we'll start using our brains differently--sort of a dual processor for our heads kind of thing.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Any gene that causes an individual to have more children, will become more prevalent. Think of the traits that are associated with many children:
- Irresponsibility
- Old-fashioned view on man/woman relations
- Tall men (attrative to women)
- Smart men (attrative to women)
- Stupid women (more children than smart women)
- Heterosexuality (this is actually new since homosexuals used to be forced to live as heterosexuals, which means having children. Now, in many countries they have the freedom not to have children).

To the extent that genes exist that cause those traits, the will be more common.

Answer 5

Evolution procedes by survival of the fittest. However, with medicines and health-care being as good as it is, there is no advantage in any mutation. Therefore evolution will not procede until our species faces a struggle to survive.

Answer 6

You're question is flawed.
Evolution does not happen in steps. It is a constant, continuous process. It is happening to all life forms all the time.

Answer 7

As we used to walk on all fours as apes are hips have had to devolop to be bipedal but they are not yet fully devoloped so soon we will be fully bipedal thus no hip worries in later life.
are brains wil get bigger as we advance in new technologies in an effort to understand them and we will gain more control over are brain allowing us to levitate objects and eventually move large objects just with our minds and telepathic communication so basically we will look much the same but with a slightly larger head the nxt step would be for us to completly leave our bodies and exist as one with energy with almost god like powers and inteligence.

Answer 8

well you know how in chemistry, every reaction has a forward and reverse reaction. the most likely result of evolution is probably revolution. we will revert back to a monkey state of humanity in order to achieve a utopian society.

Answer 9

The human race can never evolve. Any genetic "mutation" e.g anything different from what we call normal is either treated or aborted. This is it folks

Answer 10

If there were such a thing as evolution then why aren't monkeys still becoming men?

And why have animals never learned how to cross roads safely?