Will we consider ourselves human for as long as we live?
2006-12-29 09:24:02 · 6 answers · asked by ☢☠☣☢☠☣ 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think modern medicine and other social advances stops our evolution for the most part. You no longer loose the weak to predation. Diseases are addressed through medical cure, not through survival of the fittest. And those with physical anomalies not only live, but breed. Genes that lead to poor eyesight, early loss of hearing, bad teeth, diabetes, and weak hearts (to name a few) are being allowed to perpetuate in the species through artificial correction.
I don't disagree with the modern cures and physical aids such as glasses and heart transplants that we all benefit from. But these do remove evolutionary pressures from humans, probably to the point of evolutionary standstill (if not mild reversal) of our physical bodies. With computers and mass communication, the same could probably be said about mental evolution as well.
2006-12-29 10:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"We" will be human as long as we live because "we" will not further evolve genetically. We, hopefully, will evolve intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, etc. until we die.
Homo sapien is our current genetic bench mark as a species. For us to evolve beyond that would require our changing on a genetic level that would set us apart form humans that have passed before us.
So the only considering we can do concerning our own evolution is, as I said earlier, in non-physical areas.
Beyond that an evolutionary jump. hopefully forward, would only recognizable in the individuals in which it is actually genetically present. Perhaps no to the naked eye but upon examination of all that aspects of the "human" condition.
That's my intellectually evolved guess.
And freebird has a couple of good points.
Evolution is fostered the by force of negative influences and a need to survive. It is also effected by the sustenance we derive from our surroundings.
Considering the last 6 years I'd say we've already started to fall backward.
Thank God for spell check. lol
2006-12-29 10:48:40 · answer #2 · answered by octopussy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
arent we now as a species considered homo sapiens sapien? which is a advancment or progressin from "homo sapiens"?
2006-12-29 16:25:11 · answer #3 · answered by cav 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution just keeps popping up like a splinter in your finger or a pimple on your nose.
2006-12-29 10:28:14 · answer #4 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no such thing as evolution, sorry man, your question is toast. hahahaha!
2006-12-30 07:56:11 · answer #5 · answered by Remember Vietnam 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we pretty much already do, we think were God
2006-12-29 16:10:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋