Human race??

Question

So. If global warming doesn't kill us, what will happen to the human race? Do you think we will all end up the same colour and race or do you think we will evolve into something different? I'm in a philosophical mood today :-)

I mean in thousands of years. Beings evolve - I was just wondering if people thought that with inter-racial marriages and pregnancies, we would eventually become one race.

Answer 1

Supposing we last that long ...

I think our nervous systems will synchronize with computer technology. And keyboard manufacturers will be a thing of the past.

Should we last that long ...

Answer 2

Firstly I don't accept evolution - show me the evidence of human being having evovled? There isn't any. There were other species such as neanderthal but we now know we did not evolve from them. There is also no evidence to suggest that we will all end up the same colour or race. People have been moving around the globe for as long as we have been here and many people have mixed race mariages/partnerships but so far it hasn't resulted in any major changes. If you have been watching 100% English however you will have seen that most people in the UK draw DNA from a very diverse genetic pool. However, if you look around you will see that most people still marry within their own ethnic group.

Answer 3

Hi t3ddy, Richard E is absolutely spot-on in that there is only one Race: The Human Race.

However, we'll undoubtedly evolve into something different in thousands of years because by that time we'll be 'out there' exploring space - that "Final Frontier" - and, assuming we are not enslaved and bred to be foodstuff, having cross-species babies with the exo-aliens we meet.

So our Race may very well continue to be as colourful, diverse and delightfully 'imperfect' as today - but in a whole different way with all the problems that meeting other species will bring.

And whether or not other life forms are out there to breed with, the manipulation of our gene sequences will be commonplace and shall lead to an accelerated evolution that replaces the process of Natural Selection in all sorts of 'interesting' ways. For example. there is a disturbing portent in the New Scientist article about the "suicide gene" (which is being funded by the US Department of Defense) and can be read here:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19325853.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19325853.200

The Age of Eugenics is here already - and where that takes us in thousands of years time, in terms of your question on human evolution, is one of THE most important practical, philosophical and ethical questions of the current time.

And you (more or less) have asked that question.
Thank you for so doing.

Answer 4

We have always been one race.

If you study India, where various shades of people have lived together for thousands of years, you will note that Indians still come in an array of colors.

In the US, most of the American Indians have been assimilated into the Black and White populations to the degree that usually someone will feel a need to tell others that they are part Indian.

The US may become more homogeneous in color, with people being slightly darker in the South and in the urban areas.
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Do you think we will all end up the same colour and race or do you think we will evolve into something different?


I hardly think that this is an either/or situation. We will evolve AND tend to look more alike with regard to skin color.

If all the chicks looked like Beyoncé, would that be a bad thing?

Answer 5

We are one race already, the human race.
Race is only a variation on the same theme.
I believe if people carry on eating junk food whilst obsessively using their cars instead of walking, such humans might end up becoming dependant on machines almost like your science factious androids.
If human beings break from the bonds of nature, they will in effect be committing a slow but inevitable suicide.
As for people sharing the same racial features, I cannot see how genes could be so predictable.
Even brothers or sisters in the same family can inherit various physical characteristics from various predecessors.

Answer 6

the lady above me is wrong. Our skin changes depend on the enviromental factors. African Americans are lighter than the Africans in Africa. The Asians in the U.S are lighter than the Asians in Asia, and the same for the caucasians in the U.S are tinny tinny bit darker than the caucasians in Europe.

We won't end up the same race no matter what, but I'm pretty sure we'll evolve into something different, assumming that the sun will burn off its energies in ...a few more billion years :D, we got quite a long way to go :)

Answer 7

Inter-racial mixture will not change environmental influences. The history of race is very recent, probably not more than 5 centuries. I believe it will wither away soon. Remove the term race, then environmental influences will sustain a diversified but common humanity

Answer 8

The way we go, there will be no thousands of years ... even not hundredths. Insects being the one who adapt the more easily to environmental changes (remember how fast they learn to resist insecticides like DDT) they have a future on Earth.
Other kinds or species ? I would say No, because if you break any link in a food chain, you break the whole chain.
That's what we are doing with animals (whales, pandas, monkeys etc.) ! Not many people realise that OUR survival as a species depends on THEIRS.

Answer 9

Its a bit hard to say if we'll end up the same race, bcos not to forget it doesn't matter where you are born the colour of your skin won't change, this will only relaly happen unless inter-racial marriages and pregnancies occur.

Answer 10

I do believe that we will end up more or less the same colour, what with all of the diversity of cultures and colours...it will probably be analogous to a 'melting pot.'
However, what is food for thought, is that, as we evolve we may become 'one gender.'

Answer 11

the future I would like is that Global warming is the threat that makes us pull together and recognise that everyone is necessary and that in having to work together to try to save the planet as a fit place for ourselves to exist we achieve equality co-operation compassion understanding and build on that legacy becoming truly human and civilised and world citizens at long last.

However the alternative is that we compete for natural resources 'me first' to the bitter end - and become increasingly more warlike abusive and bitter and twisted. Even bets for me think we can go either way.