what will the human race look like in the future?--will we evolve or stay the same?

Answer 1

We will look the same, but we will have evolved to become more immune to background radiation. That is, anyone with a resistance to cancers caused by radiation will have more offspring than those who don't have resistance.

Answer 2

Naturally speaking, we are constantly evolving. We are half a foot taller now than we were 500 years ago.

We evolve with society as society gains more free time to explore, philisophically and literally.

Therefore, I believe that yes we will evolve, both socially and physically in the future. We are constantly evolving.

We may gain intuition as a more controlled sense.
We may gain tolerance as a more revered social quality.

The problem is though, that the human species will have to go through some very difficult times before we start to realize our true potential.. this potential being what will lead us to live all humans for one, and one human for all, in harmony with the planet for the good of the species.

Answer 3

Height variations in humans are 90% diet.
look at any family of immigrants as proof. first generation Irish settlers, Italians from 1900, Vietnamese boat people from the 1980's, all there children, raised on protein rich American diets became substantially taller than their parents.

nomadic tribes people throughout the world, whether in Africa or the Gobi desert are taller because they eat more red meat than the near vegatarian masses making up most of the world population.

Humans have looked roughly the same for the past 100 000 years or so, possibly longer. Since we are no longer subject to predation, we have become largely immune to the evolutionary forces that regular animals have to deal with.

Many species have existed that are relatively unchanged for millions of years. Squirrels and chimps are two examples, so are several species of dinosaurs.

If humanity were to change significantly in the future, those people would technically not be "human" anymore, they would be similar, but not quite us.

But for that to happen something would have to happen that prevented "normal" humans from reproducing so that this new form could take over.

For example, if only "hairless over weight pea brains" reproduced, then we could reasonably assume that future generations of humans would display those tendencies. But the operative word here is "only".

Obviously most people have a chance to procreate and therefore the genetic potential of humans remains fairly well mixed and no particular group is breeding to the exclusion of others. Even regionally isolated racial groups are still fully able to interbreed. Australian aboriginies can procreate with say North American Indians or Subsaharan tribes people. We are much more alike than skin tone might otherwise suggest.

We are far more likely to change our appearance due to genetic tinkering than due to much slower evolutionary pressures.

When evolution finally has its way with us, it is likely to come from something radically different, not something obviously familiar.

My money is on robot squirrels.

Answer 4

We are constantly evolving. even over the past 100 years there have been noticeable changes in the mean of human height. No one can accurately describe the human race in the future.

In addition the definition of human is too fluid to define which sub-category of human you speak of, or if it is the human race as a whole. All primates are, in one science biologically defined as the same species (that includes humans) as all primates can intro-breed (there can be a human-chimp hybrid). Or you could define humans as primates with a 90 degree skull-spine cross section. In this case it would be what you may think of when you say human.

Answer 5

The human race is evolving now, but what you are speaking of would need the right mutation, plus the correct selection pressure. Evolution is just the change in gene frequency over time. Epistasis keeps this process generally, neutral. A selection pressure can take one of the variants of a population and naturally select it, so that you will have descent with modification over time.

Answer 6

We are constantly evolving. We are what were are because of beneficial mutations. Most mutations are detrimental to the individuals who have them. Because of the rarity of a beneficial mutation, knowing what the human race will look like is tough proposition. We would definitely have to live long enough as a species to experience dramatic environmental changes to warrant certain traits to stand out and thus make certain individuals more attractive so they might be more sexually successful, thereby getting more of their genes into the population to increase the frequency of that particular gene. It's even harder to predict our psychological evolution, as we also still maintain much of our ancient programming that isn't necessary, especially in more developed nations. So, to answer your question, I don't know.

Answer 7

We will have appendages growing out of our backsides like chair legs so we won't need chairs. Our heads will be so big that we will need special devices to support them. not because we are smarter either. We will sweat fat and oil from our backs. We will have an unusual sense to blame the government for all our problems, while at the same time complain about why our government hasn't fixed the (insert your trivial problem here) And we will only have 4 toes. Well Americans anyway

Answer 8

Well since everyone is getting slimmer maybe we will look like aliens tiny body with big heads not big brains humans aren't that superior to have huge brains like the aliens in movies

Answer 9

I think the human race will change in appearance as time goes on. I am predicting that we will get rid of our tail bones and small fingers and toes.

Answer 10

if you watched the future is wild then you will know that humans will have left the earth to a different planet and mamals will not exist anymore and new creatures will walk the earth