Would the humans in 10 billions years look like humans today if no how would they look like?

Answer 1

10,000,000,000

10 million would have been enough for the question wouldn't it! Geez, we only diverged from the family of Chimpanzees and Bonobos about 6 million years ago and we've changed a lot in that time, haven't we?

Life on earth has only existed for less than 4 billion years. In 10 billion we'd have had to leave the solar system. I can't imagine we would possibly look anything like we do now. We might have changed beyond anything you could imagine in that vast amount of time.

Thing is with evolution you have to figure out what are the selection pressures, its not enough to have a big mutating populace, if most are breeding just fine then its really closer to neutral evolution - a state of genetic drift.

Simplest answer I can give is there's no chance we'd look anything like we do now, we'd have had to spent so many eons trying to counter change in our DNA which is basically inevitable and it seems to ignore all the possible technologies we would develop in that time. What would we look like? Nobody can say. In that amount of time the most far out predictions of science fiction authors may have come to pass.

Answer 2

Well if there are even humans still alive 10 billion years from now, they would not be in the same solar system we live in today (as someone mentioned). Supposedly our sun will die out in about 5 billion years, but even before then I am pretty sure the earth will be un-livable long before then.

So if there were humans, would they look the same? Well the theory of evolution is based on natural selection. This means that in a given environment, organisms that possess traits that are more beneficial in that environment are more likely to survive and produce offspring that will carry on those traits. Organisms that do not possess desirable charcteristics in the environment will essentially die off.

Is natural selection defunk though? Technology has rapidly affected our lives and may have stunted the law of 'survival of the fittest.' We no longer have to adapt physically to our environment, but for the first time in millions of years, we can alter our environment to suit our needs. Keep in mind, however, this may result even more dentrimental repercussions (global warming, etc.)

So the answer depends on, if humans can survive another 10 billion years, whether humans can change their environment to meet their needs or whether we have to change as a species to meet the environment's needs.

Answer 3

Adding to the voices that say pretty much the same. We control our environment so well we've eliminated natural selection. There is no evolution without it.

Levithan, genetic drift isn't really a factor in a large populations. And 6 billion is large. You should look up the law of large numbers and the concept of clonal interference.

Answer 4

There is a ethical dilemma faced by geneticist today that could divide the species. The affluent and the rich could start making "designer babies" and the poor would be just regular ol' humans. These designer babies probably wouldn't "look" too much difference, other than being "idealistic beautiful". This race would be resistant to diseases and cancers and more intellectual, and physical ability.

Answer 5

Well i personally think that this is the last stage of evolution so we can go no further, our brains are as big as they will get and we are as intelligent as we can be (well....Most of us!)



And food for thought us humans werent around billions of years ago, Humans have been on earth for almost 4 million years

Answer 6

i don't think there's a chance that humans 1 million years will look anything like they do to day so 10 billion years ...

we change too much. we have already changed so much that it's equally preposterous to believe that we won't change at all as it is to believe that we will. I think we will because that makes sense.

Those number of years provide enough time to evolve animals that talk and humanly intelligent trees.

Of course we won't make it to that stage because of people like George Bush and global warming but it's a nice dream to have.

Answer 7

They would be nothing like the humans today. If you reject that humans will be geneticallty modified, then natural selection will be the driving force, and who knows what are the possible presures in a world 10000000 years from now.

Answer 8

Yes and I would think aliens would look like us as well if we ever contact them because of the things that make up the universe, all creatures will have hearts, blood etc.

Answer 9

Humans may not be around. They would blow themselves up and some other creatures may take over the task of controlling this planet!!

Answer 10

I believe not, since we know for a fact that a bllion years ago we didn't look like what we do now.