If humans continued to evolve, what would we look like in a million years?

Answer 1

Impossible to answer, but great for the imagination!
In tems of evolution, if you mean change, yes, the human race is changing vastly and rapidly. However, the change is disparate across the whole spectrum of the human race. In the developed world, we are becoming more sanitised and almost cyborg like. Look around you at the electronic devices you use. The military have taken that to the next level by incorporating into head up displays weapons and systems control and night vision, so much to the extent that pilots can pick targets and fire weapons by simply looking at targets! The aircraft are fly by wire, humans can't even control them! We're developing neural net technology, whereby existing binary computers may one day be replaced by living neural systems, capable of true parallel processing. Once that happens, our brains can be wired into control systems directly. Already we have a basic form. Amputees can have implants whereby the nerve signals can be converted into signals to move motors to move limbs in a way similar to the real thing. Implanted chips can be used to carry information, and hence can act as security, allowing access, carry money and much more - and that exists and is already being used.It won't be long before that technology will be available to everyone. With genetic engineering, we can now cure some previously incurable conditions, and for those of us with rarer conditions, there's hope that even ours will some day have a cure! We can engineer specific characteristics, and once we understand more of the DNA structure and function, maybe even create. Just look at the number of things we have cured and vaccines we have. Also we are living longer, much longer than previous generations. Our bodies are no longer subject to the same degree of physical stress as we have robots to work for us. With longer lives, more time to explore and discover, things will move even faster. Population size may mean some form of selection is needed, or some moving to a different environment, like underwater or into space.
The poorer people of the world, however, will not have access to this directly, so we may have a world of two halves, the technologicaly advanced and the "mortals". That would indeed be a dangerous place to be in.
That is of course unless we manage to self destruct ourselves in our ignorance, stupidity, arogance and desire for power when it comes to war, or some natural disaster wipes us out.

Answer 2

Humans WILL continue to evolve as long as they exist. A living species can't jump off the evolution process. But a million years isn't much time, evolutionarly speaking. A million years ago humans looked like us now.

We have more diverse skin tones and sizes now simply because we live all over the globe in all sorts of environments, but a human from a million years ago could easily walk among us and look just like one of us.

Answer 3

This is impossible to answer, as evolution is the result of exterior inflences that select some mutations over other ones.
If we knew what the world would look like in 1 million years (and what it would go through between now and then) then perhaps an answer could be offered.
However, in the case of human beings, the evolution as such is essentially stopped, as we adapt theenvironment to us, rather than let us evolve to adapt to the environment.
Moreover, in a few years, we will most likely start to tamper with our DNA, and all bets are off as to what direction this would take us.
Myself, I would like to have 4 color capable eyes like birds have (instead of the 3 color photoreceptors apes have -- which is actually better than the 2 color most other mammals have, mind you).
And perhaps we could redesign the optic nerve connection while we're at it, to have that bundle of nerves go IN FRONT of the light sensitive cells as it does now is just silly -- but that is the result of how the eye evolved from less advanced organ.
But those changes would not qualify as evolution, and they would be deliberate.

Answer 4

horrible little goblin things with massive kraniums. this was studied last year and thats what the experts reckon. we would evolve through many different stages changing bit by bit to become a more efficient creature. the smaller size would enable us to move more efficiently and consume less food. the large heads would be due to increased brain size and knowledge. but there may also be a split in the evolutionary process causing two or more types of 'human' to develop. the second being larger and very aggresive more caveman like than todays man.

Answer 5

A blob. No arms or legs cause we don't use them .anymore.Just a bloated body with a large head and brain.Man will cease to be an active species, just an intelligence.All food will be synthetic as there will not be anybody to plant or to look after food animals not unless we have armies of robots to do all the manual things for us.Could we imagine this type of existence today? I think I would rather be living now.

Answer 6

Through the intervention surgeons and biologists the DNA that makes us what we are could be changed dramatically,we wouldn't change too much from where we are now.
The chances of the human race surviving for more than a few hundred years is virtually zero!

Answer 7

Likely all humans by then will be gene-manipulated clones who are super-healthy, super intelligent, super talented, super handsome and beautiful and super bored. Perhaps there will still be a few Wild humans (on Friday nights?). Also, lack of gravity on Mars, etc. will likely weaken some.

Answer 8

Difficult to say but based on current trends I would suggest -

Small Head, Large Mouth, very large round bodies, squat and fat legs. Well proportioned buttocks (lots of sitting down to eat). Height will reduce by several inches due to effects of gravity on large wobbly mass.

Answer 9

Gonzo from the Muppet Babies. The one exception would be George Bush who would end up looking like Oscar off of Sesame Street

Answer 10

I doubt very much if humanity will last that long. We've only been building civilisations for 10,000 years, and we've already screwed the planet beyond repair.