Is it possible for us to predict what we'll be or look like in the distant future?

Question

Given advance supercomputers and the state of our technology, is it at all possible for us to determine how humans will evolve a couple million or billion years from now? I mean, we already have an idea of what our ancestors look like, so maybe there's a pattern or something out there for us that we can use.

Answer 1

We do not have two pieces of vital information to feed the computer; the genetic mutations and the environmental changes. Evolution can tell you about the past and the present, but the future is conjecture.

PS Mighty P.. Mate preference is not predicated on societal parameters, but evolved strategies and genetic heritage give rise to societies. Society is the parameter of our evolved behavior. Our mate preferences are not that arbitrary.

Answer 2

There is a programme already that they use for stolen children to show their appearance possibly X number of years later. I am sure you have seen its work on milk cartons. "Bobby was stolen 5 years ago. This is how he might look today." A good guess at best!

But as for long term this is only a guess at best. We are dumping toxins and mutating matters into the environment so who knows what will happen. Already thousands of babies are being born permanently genetically altered. This damage is irreversible.

So who can say how we will look? With the meddling being done to the human race there is no telling. We also do not know how it will be once the races are thoroughly mixed which is inevitable over time. I am guessing all various shades of beige!

Answer 3

At present it is impossible to predict how we would look ...... The difficult thing about predicting how we will look is simply dat we dont know if we will survive .... The fact is that According to Darwinism .... we may not be able to compete with other organisms ... Infact our evolution may be unsuccessful to dat of the mosquito ... Since today their are millions of organism existing ... we really dont know which of them will stand the test of natural selection and survive...

Answer 4

no, because computers don't know about outside influences. evolution is shaped by biological changes, but it's also shaped by societal changes. suppose someday society shifts and suddenly, for example, girls stop thinking short skinny guys are cute, and start to think that tall fat guys are cute. then all of our offspring will be born tall and fat (as opposed to the short skinny offspring we had before). computers can't predict things like that.

Answer 5

they have. There was a documentary on the discovery channel about that,

Answer 6

no