We've gone from fish to land, up to the trees and back down.
We've learned to stand erect.
What can we expect in the future?
What changes lay ahead?
What will we become .....and HOW?
2006-09-24 02:27:41 · 11 answers · asked by Uncle Thesis 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It all depends on environmental pressures because that is the trigger for evolutionary change. Whatever mankind needs to evolve he will evolve given time so probably smaller physiques and greater brain capacity will be characteristics that our descendents will evolve.
2006-09-24 02:32:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have changed the environment to suit our needs. We no longer live in environments that are influenced only by nature. Also, we think highly of "normal" people. If someone has a third leg, for instance, chances are that that person won't be able to get married and pass on his/her mutated DNA. Basically, the only thing I can see happening is that humans will get stronger, smarter, taller, and resistant to more diseases, but bigger, stranger changes seem unlikely in our environment. Unfortunately, if there are big changes, we won't live long enough to see them.
If our environment, however, were to change due to global warming, too much pollution, etc., humans' bodies may evolve accordingly.
2006-09-24 09:46:12 · answer #2 · answered by x 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fact that we can cure a lot of disease and genetic defects, relieve famine and droughts has interfered with the natural progression of evolution in humans. the only things that i can see having any direct affect on the future evolution of humanity is the trend towards racial homogenisation.due to the global nature of human society over a long period racial differences will start to disappear, in the end they will be gone. the fact that i'm a mix of irish, english, latvian and jewish and my wife is english, welsh, maltese and chinese is testament to that fact. the only other factor that may predictably affect our future evolution is again fascilitated by the global nature of our society: epidemic disease on a world wide scale. this has happened a few times before with the plague and spanish flu, only those who did not come into contact with them or who had some natural resistance survived them. now diseases will spread much faster and further, before we have time to find a cure. chicken flu is an example, sooner or later it will become pandemic and if it has a high mortality rate only those whose bodies have some degree of immunity will survive. that's evolution for you the 'fit' will survive and the 'unfit' will perish. also the fact that the west is monopolising the flu vaccine will allow the virus to gain a foothold in asia, leaving a lot of unprotected vectors, which in turn will allow the virus to adapt to the human environment and rendering the vaccine useless.
2006-09-24 10:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're going to continue to grow more intelligent the we adapt to instability in our lives and view media designed for people with shorter attention spans. We'll keep getting gradually smaller as we depend less and less on physical labor and strength is bred out of us. Our eyesight will worsen the more we work in close environments staring at computer screens and advance corrective surgeries to compensate for genetic weakness that would normally marginalize poor-sighted people in the genetic pool. The Percentage of Homosexuals will increase as the population rises because that's what it does. Our fingers and thumbs will continue to become more muscular and have a wider range of motion as we continue to opperate more intricate interfaces with smarter machines. There will be a short-term increase to envyronmental sensitivity like Asthma and social disorders like depression and Anxiety disorder as technology alters our our genetic pool to include people who would normally be excluded and a greater segment of the population spends significant portions of their life indoors.
2006-09-24 09:49:26 · answer #4 · answered by W0LF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When mankind builds space habitats in large numbers, and exists in a weightless environment, evolution will favor a beach ball-like body with spindly limbs, and a muscular tube-like fundamental orifice. They will subsist mainly on a diet of sauerkraut and peas, and propel themselves about their environment via controlled flatulence. Olfactory capabilities, for good reason, will diminish.
2006-09-24 09:34:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life evolves, not "we".
Evolution has taken millions of years. We are just one species.
The majority of species become extinct as more efficient variations exploit environmental changes that inevitably happen on this planet.
We will become extinct, and the hows and whys are irrelevant. Life will continue to evolve and adapt.
2006-09-24 09:50:41 · answer #6 · answered by Chronic Observer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My only guess is that we'll adapt to a highly toxic and overcrowded world--my significant other, who dealt with it last year, believes that cancer is the body attempting to adapt to a toxic environment...which, if you look at the causes of cancer on a cellular level, makes a lot of sense.
2006-09-24 09:32:43 · answer #7 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we haven't seen any examples of evolution actually happen, I doubt we need to worry about what's next.
2006-09-24 09:30:00 · answer #8 · answered by AT 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
changes
2006-09-24 09:29:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual evolution is what is important.
Why isn't anyone talking about that?
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-24 09:30:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋