what will man evolve into next?

Question

we have evolved for different reasons throughout the many many years we have been around. we learned to walk upright, use tools, use logic and many other things. im really hopeing we are not at an evolutionary dead end and this is as far as we can go. so what do you think will be our next step given the chanlenges we have to overcome to make that step? also it seems like the evolutionary steps keep getting closer and closer together so it should be pretty soon as far as the history of man goes.

Answer 1

We won't evolve into anything. Something might evolve from us, but then it won't be a Homo sapien, it would be something with a different phenotype. Also, with evolution, something must spur it on to happen. A species doesn't evolve for the pure sake of doing so. For instance, humankind might evolve into something else in the advent of a nuclear holocaust. But for that to happen, we would be assuming that nearly all of the humans on earth now would die out and those who had a genetic predisposition for something like breathing ash-filled air would be the ones would survive. After tens of thousands of years of them breeding together, they would be a distinctly separate species from us to the point that, if any humans were still alive, they might not be able to mate with them. Any animal can evolve given the right conditions, but, honestly, the conditions for it don't appeal too much to me.

Oh yeah, to the person who put something to the effect of "why are there monkeys here if we evolved from them"--we didn't evolve from monkeys. They evolved down a separate line alongside us from a common ancestor, they are not our ancestor, they are more like distant cousins.

Answer 2

Evolution is not progress towards some goal, it is adaptation to environment so there is nothing like as far as we can go. All living things may evolve when there is pressure to do so.
But for evolution to happen you need natural selection. That means that individuals with specific characteristics that make them survive longer and have more children will do just so and so they will pass the characteristics to more children and eventually change the species. But in contemporary human societies there are no physical characteristics that make one survive longer and have more children. In order to evolve we should be reduced first to a primitive state where physical characteristics would make the difference.

Answer 3

My personal view is that cancers are nature's attempt to evolve. Like any evolutionary trend there are likely to be failures. I also think that many miscarriages are also attempts to adapt to a changing environment. Different genetic combinations, however, turn out to be unsustainable, so we unfortanely lose individuals in the processes.

The human appendix is pretty much useless. This is an organ that I expect we will lose. The proliferation of baldness is also like a change in environmental conditions to a changing environment. Indoor species need less hair to protect them from the elements. Intelligence has also changed as education has over time. We are likely to see changes in the structure of our brains.

If we become more space-faring, some of our skeletal structure will change for those who are born and live in space. In a space environment with self-contained breathing, our organ system may change to respond.

Answer 4

Good question... considering that evolution is a myth and there is no real evidence of the process occurring in humans (I mean when is the last time anyone bumped into a half human, half whatever species in transition?)... I'd say man will not evolve. We will continue to be wholly, completely, uniquely homo sapien the way God created us in the beginning. Any other speculation is fantasy.

Answer 5

I will say man will evolve into women next..and no I'm not joking..

Women by their very nature have a better survival rate..there are more girls born when there are plagues/famine etc..

which makes sense..to keep the human animal going..there has to a larger female to male ratio in hard times..

plus alot of the ressissive traits are carried on the y chromosome...men tend to pass on more mutations in their dna.

so with the planet going to hell in a handbasket..and sperm production down ..man will start to evolve into more womanly forms

Answer 6

I think were about done evolving. if you believe that evolution occurs because of natural selection then you believe that evolution occurs enhance the species' chance of survival. Technology today allows us to enhance our chance of survival by changing the world around us as opposed to ourselves

Answer 7

Well ...since the theory is nothing more than a well organized hoax,we will not be evolving into ANYTHING !! ....If man evolved from monkeys,why are there still monkeys ?

Answer 8

I'm not sure, but if I EVER run across someone actually morphing or evolving right before my eyes, I would freak out!!

Answer 9

I don't know if we'll still evolve, but I guess we'll continue to adopt to our rapidly changing environment.

But I'm all for having wings!!!

Answer 10

we are evolving into pure physical Love and pure non-physical love in the same sphere. That how God is and is doing.