hey evolution believers, what do you think will humans(or maybe not humans anymore)look after a million years?

Answer 1

We will look like earth.. because we will all be dead. Thanks to things like Welfare and prisons that waste our money and Natural Resources, we will kill our loving species. Oops...

Answer 2

That is a question that cannot be answered with any certainty because evolution depends on circumstances occurring at the time. I mean that should we blow ourselves up with nuclear bombs then people who are left who are able to withstand the effects of radiation will continue while the others won't. Or, if the world suddenly becomes full of water, as has been supposed by global warming, then the people that can swim and survive only in water (a sort of mermaid ) will procreate. Evolution is not a progressive process but acts upon the surrounding causes and effects.

Answer 3

There's no way to tell. Evolution is not fortune-telling. It merely predicts change - and if there are environmental effects, more change - if everything stays the way it is now for the next million years, not much change, no reason to change. Even a million years isn't a lot of time for evolution of a species that reproduces as often as humans - we're 7 million years away from our last common ancestor with Bonobo monkeys.

Answer 4

Natural selection has not been eliminated. Only the selection variables have changed. It is true that "nature" is not shaping humans as much as humans are shaping nature, but as we shape nature, it has a return effect on us. The way things currently are heading, I would guess that human appearance will move towards to current "ideal" of beauty. That, and interracial relationships will continue to mix things up until everyone is a nice shade of tan (paraphrasing Frank Zappa)....and this is a good thing in my eyes.

Much of this will probably seem like it is not happening at all because we are living in the middle of it. Only an outsider (someone not from earth) would be able to see a marked change in a relatively short (geologically speaking) time.

Answer 5

Let me start by pointing out that humanity isn't really evolving naturally anymore as we've largely eliminated natural selection.

I suspect that we will be fiddling with human genes in the not so distant future. You're already seeing small steps in that direction: Genetic tests of embryos and selective birth of preferred genes/gender.

Before long it will be possible to directly choose genetic aspects of children. Looks, intelligence, skills, etc. It doesn't matter whether we want that or not, once someone starts doing it, it will become a matter of economic necessity to jump on the bandwagon.

Later, I imagine we'll actively evolve the species to create more specialized humans. Bred for war, bred for deep space expeditions, bred for desk jobs, etc.

A side effect of all this control over DNA will be immortality.

Keep in mind that most of humanity's scientific progress has come in the past few hundred years. I expect all of the above to happen in the next 500 years or so.

This assumes that humans will be around that long, of course. We may end up destroying the planet well before then.

In a million years I would expect humans to have dispensed with their biological bodies and moved on to more practical shells.

Answer 6

The same that they look like today. The biggest push towards evolution is natural selection. Modern humans have eliminated that, in our society we provide help and services for the weak and disabled even though they might not be evolutionarily "fit for survival". Once natural selection in humans is gone, there goes human evolution with it.

Answer 7

I have a theory on this -- keep in mind, it's only a theory:
Humans are the first (known) species to adapt the environment to ourselves rather than letting our species be adapted by the environment around us. If we survive for a million years (i.e. Global Warming, etc. doesn't get us first), I think we'll look pretty much the same as we do now.
Just my own humble opinion...

Answer 8

i think they will look the same however they will be more advanced. as of now humans only use a very small fraction of their brains i suspect in the future they will be capable o using a larger percent and maybe the internal organs will be more advanced as well

Answer 9

I hope the women look like that green dancing chick on Star Trek. Cause I'll need a girlfriend by then.

Answer 10

Since our genes receive more damage every time they are replicated, life on this planet one million years from now will probably not be recognizable.