what evidence is there that we are still evolving?

Answer 1

My comments are for those who have already answered. There is a difference between gaining knowledge in evolving in the evolutionary theory posed by Darwin. The comment about people who live in the deep south is uncalled for. I've spent some time there before and didn't find the stereotypes to be true at all. I have heard or read of people adapting to their environment in terms of learning to live with certain pollutants, etc, but I don't know whether that would be evolution or not; I think not.

Answer 2

Just look at some of the recent info coming out of human genome research. Providing the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving, researchers have detected some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection, a principal force of evolution, within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years. If that's too far in the past for your taste a simple look at average high school student height and weight over the past 20 years and you'll see a marked increase in both.

Answer 3

proof that we are evolving depends on environmental characteristics, and since humans are so diverse in environment, it will be hard to evolve. animals adapt to certain conditions and after millions of years, they break off from the species they once were. but as humans, there is no set environment so certain attributes are not being multiplied into our genome. i think the major proofs of evolution in modern day humans is race. Studies have shown that humans started in Africa with dark skin, but as they moved north into europe where the sun is not as hot and it rains more, the pigment gradually faded into light skin.

Answer 4

mankind has had the same amount of intelligence since caveman times, its just that we are taught more nowdays - love is an evolutionary tool (cold but true) that we need because a human child needs more than one parent to teach it things as it reaches adulthood, whilst also getting food,clothes etc. But more and more nowadays we are encountering single mothers and fathers - is this because we acknowlage that education is no longer the responcibility of the parents but mores so of the government?

Answer 5

All evidence goes to show that man is going the other way. wake up!!!

Answer 6

none; we didn't evolve in the first place, and we're not evolving now. (at least not in the Darwinistic term "evolution").

Answer 7

You have watched The Jerry Springer Show right ???!

Answer 8

People are generally getting more intelligent over time.

Answer 9

none......
we are becoming self indulgent, fat lazy, game-station-a-holics,
reliant on machines and technology....
we'll eventually end up looking like boggle-eyed blimps, with either no legs or stumps, seat shaped asses, one arm for typing, one used constantly for shovelling mac'adees in our mouth.
evolution no way........
devolution more like!

Answer 10

sometimes my bf helps without having to be asked.