How will humans evolve in the future?

Answer 1

We won't evolve into a different species since that's proven to be impossible, but improvements within our species are very obvious.

We've already gotten taller, we live longer and we are more immune to disease. Of course, the bacteria and viruses have evolved to counter our immunities, but we're winning the battle in most cases.

Just look at how quickly children are growing in intelligence. With the computer age we have children learning much more at a much faster rate.

Bottom line - we're evolving to be taller, smarter and healthier. A good sign when you think about it.

Answer 2

It will soon become impossible for humans to survive without technology. In 20 or so years time youngsters will have electronic chips inserted under their skin or on their skin to link them to a huge range of Internet and mobile phone devices and other ' stuff ' yet to be invented as easily as they get a tattoo or a piercing these days.

Adults [ ' Kidults ' is the phrase some people use I believe to describe over 30's with a passion for new technology ] will also fall into the man machine trap and it will probably all end with a Robocop scenario where someone will hand over their brain to be deployed in a robot or android which will respond to their brainwaves as the new tech human's ' outer shell ' .

Technology will eventually spawn a breed of humans who are far too busy interacting with computers to raise a greeting or even a faint emotional recognition in relation to their fellow beings. Shaking hands, a friendly wave, social interaction between humans in fact will become very ' old hat ' to this new tech generation who will spend nearly all their lives in communication with their species via a screen or a keyboard or a chip in their head.

Humans may well split into two groups.... techs and non-techs, with some men and women renouncing technology completely to get back to nature and a ' mind, body and spirit ' new age exsistence in a natural enviroment. Will we eventually see one set of humans evolve into 7 or 8 feet super beings who can run as fast as a Cheetah and have the strength of an elephant while those seeking technology will eventually turn their minds over to cyber space and settle for their brain in a jar ? I think it could happen.

Technology could well end up as the new Cecular world or ' fallen world ' while those who renounce it in favour of physical perfection will see themselves as religiously correct and closer to God.

Politics will eventually fall off the map and the cult of the individual will become more and more a part of life. No more leaders and no more wars as a result, just like-minded types in tribes following either a technological life or a life where physical perfection is all.

Both tribes will probably end up as equally shallow and unless we eventually make contact with other worlds or other dimensions that can improve our state of being the future seems fairly average for the human race.

Answer 3

It is difficult to predict the evolutionary future. Many many of the selective pressures that drive evolution have ceased due to modern medicine. Additionally, evolution is also caused by isolation, which there is also very little because of immigration and travel. Without the selective pressures causing people to die at an early age or isolated populations of humans, the remaining mode of evolutionary change is sexual selection. Sexual selection may indeed cause us to evolve, but it is impossible to predict in what ways.

Now, the colonization of space would introduce the natural selection and isolation required for a speciation event to occur. Put 10,000 humans on another planet for 50,000 years, and I'd bet that a distinct species could arise.

Answer 4

There is gene that controll how the brain grows and it comes in to type the normal type and the better type 50% of us have the normal type 25% half the new type and the other 25% have both. We will all have the better gene at some point in the future and will be all much smarter than we were but I think we still have war

Answer 5

The human brain can't get much bigger (at birth), since women wouldn't be able to deliver the babies (it's hard enough as it is!), so, I don't see much increase in brain size, but possibly using artificial intelligence, drugs and alternative types of neuroscience to tap into areas of the brain we rarely use, like the temporal lobe and its connexion to regeneration of nerves, religious fervor and psychic power. If humans can stop from destroying their own race, I think we will eventually learn telepathy and possibly mind control.

After we get over our big wedgie about cloning and embryonic research, we'll probably abolish childbirth (wait..that COULD mean bigger brains!) in favor of test-tube babies from start to finish, genetic engineering and even trait selection.

HOPEFULLY, the world will eventually be run the the most intelligent, rather than the most rich and powerful, like "A Brave New World".

ON the flip side, if there's a huge, apocalyptic war, it'll be more of a "Mad Max" scenario and we'll all "devolve" into primitive society. That seems much more likely right now!

Answer 6

Hopefully we will all disappear for a couple of million years and give the planet a chance to recover. Failing that I hope we evolve so that we can survive on noxious fumes and dirty water - if not we WILL all be disappearing.

Answer 7

We will develop telepathic powers because currently we only use a small percentage of our brain tissue - but scientists have found that this is slowly increasing and the potential is enormous and unknown - but personally I like to think humans will have telepathic abilities.

Answer 8

This will undoubtedly depend on the speed of technological advance,even small leaps in scientific advances have a pronounced effect on the human race.

Answer 9

Well, look at it logically. We started in the water as fish type things, then we crawled out onto the floor, then up the trees as monkeys. So we have covered, earth, water and air (as in swinging through it from tree to tree). Therefore the remaining element is fire, when we all develop solid skins from lying on beaches on our holidays and move onto the sun. Either that or we'll have three arms. It's one or the other, I'm 97% sure of it.

Answer 10

They will get taller and better looking. They will also develop faster like learning to talk at a younger age and stuff. They will more tech-savvy and need less training to use all the devices than their parents did... but wait. That's happening already!