So whats the next evolutionary step for humans?

Question

What will we evolve into next?

Could another, perhaps more intelligent species evolve here on earth to compete with us and eventually take us out??

Answer 1

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Who knows? We need to look at the pressures for change. What will give us an advantage over others? What genetic traits will improve our chances for survival to adulthood?
I believe such things as resistance to cancers and leukaemia caused by pollution and radiation would give people an increased chance of survival. Those without this innate resistance are more likely to die in childhood, so by default, the genetic trait will increase.
We may become more intelligent, or we may not, geniuses tend not to have anymore children than anyone else, in fact, probably less, if they're really smart. There is nothing to suggest that we are any smarter than we were 100,000 years ago. Just information has been disseminated better due to writing and language improvements.

Answer 2

With some of the answers I have seen, I think we are going backwards back to the monkeys.
However the way technology is going I think the next step is to become cyborgs. We certainly live longer now(if people wouldn't smoke and pollution wouldn't spread) but mechanical implants are the next thing to come. Example, chips in our brains that might expand our intelligence, or a bacteria that will heal wounds from an accident faster, eye implants for the blind, and maybe a brain for politicians.
Anyway you get the idea.

Answer 3

Evolving into Outer Space Travelers is most likely. The more time we spend in the Sky Lab over the Earth the more we will become accustomed to the way to live there.

What is important is that we begin to understand how to manufacture materials that are befitting space crafts that spend a long time touring the other sectors of our galaxy first.

Answer 4

We will evolve from Homo sapiens to true Human Beings. In the future humans will communicate by how much water they have in their eyes. Become extrasensative beings and lose complete carnal knowledge of a crerator. Cloning, teleportation and cloaking technology will spur a major altering point in our evolution. All intersecting together helping us to further deep space exploration and pushing our life spans to the bounds of immoratality, science and medicine extending life in a world where organs are created from stem cells. Choosing to die would be the only act to seperate us from the other species choosing an immortal life.

Answer 5

It is believed that we, as a species, have evolved as far as we are going to evolve here on earth. If we manage to travel to and inhabit other planets, environmental pressures may cause us to evolve, perhaps not FURTHER, in the sense you mean, but "differently" to adapt to the new environment.

Answer 6

Physically we will develop a more sun resistant skin especially nearest the equator where the effects of global warming will be most intense, and our need to navigate the water will perhaps evolve our feet and hands into webbed tools, not to mention increased lung capacity...gills ??

Mentally we will remain competitive and more focused, hopefully taping into the areas of the brain that aren't utilized in today's world. Wouldn't it be great if we could be much more connected to each others thoughts and feelings, perhaps allowing us to be more compassionate and less reactive towards violence allowing trust and mutual survival with connected intention...

Answer 7

Interesting question. I've thought about it myself. The world is a changing place right now. Capitilization is spreading throughout the world and Darwinian principles hold true now more than ever. Free market economies breed greedy people. And in those free market societies only the strongest will survive. If you asked me, the next step is for a more aggressive, self interested human.

Answer 8

we are are getting right into a level of 'Self layout evolution' the position we are able to be able to elect DNA and develop it interior the procedures we adore. For the previous 3 and a nil.5 billion years evolution has been forming with the help of 'organic selection'. some thing which in our species besides, has been destroyed interior the superb 10,000 years, specifically interior the superb three hundred as we are getting a educated species. interior the late 18th century, there replaced right into a guy who had study each e book that had ever been written. If we tried to attempt this now, no matter if you study one e book an afternoon in a nationwide library, it may take 15,000 years to study each and each e book, which with the help of then extra books would of been written. before everything those adjustments will be restricted to the fix of genetic defects which includes Cystic Fibrosis and Muscular Dystrophy. those are managed with the help of unmarried genes and could be extremely person-friendly to perceive and very best perfect in destiny. different characteristics which includes intelligence are probably managed with the help of a huge kind of genes operating in relation with one yet another and could be a lot harder to locate them and modify them, besides the indisputable fact that that is a chance that interior the subsequent century we are able to be able to modify intelligence or maybe replace instincts which includes aggression. we are able to be able to re-layout our self and that is a chance macromolecules ought to in the destiny replace DNA depending existence kinds.

Answer 9

humans will probably not evolve physically ever again only mentally, and even there we will be evolving very slowly because we protect the people with mental defects, were like taking 3 steps forward and 2.5 steps back

Answer 10

Not sure about the physical aspect, but mentally, we will not be as competitive, we will not feel the need to dominate, and we will not treat any living creature in cruelty. These are the traits that the gene pool needs to get rid of right away. Oh, and we will not glorify violence or use abusive speech.