If you use Darwin's Theory Of Evolution ...?

Question

... what Human being will look like in the future?

Answer 1

I agree that as our world gets smaller in a matter of speaking, there is more of a mix of races. Therefore, many of the racial distinctions can theoretically become fuzzy. However, as long as the world has such a variety of climates, and even more so if people tend to stay in one place long enough, man will always show racial differences. All of man's racial features are mostly to do with the part of the surroundings that generations and generations of man have lived in.

I think, if our climate gets warmer and warmer, we will on average get leaner and leaner and our hair may thin or become more curly to allow more ventilation. As the harmful effects of the sun worsen our skin will most likely darken to filter out it's rays. That is unless we are eventually forced to stay indoors or underground or something. Then, we might get lighter. Who knows. With more pollutants in the air we may gain more lung capacity with generations, just as those in higher altitudes. And who knows what our bodies will develop to cope with other harmfull effects of pollutions. Afterall, those that are not lactose intolerant developed the enzyme to process it through generations of exposure.

Answer 2

No one can predict the course of evolution, but based on the culture and the habits of humanity today the future leader might have a head like George Bush, a body like that of a Neanderthal carrying a large stone axe in one hand, a cell phone in another and walking in a nuked out shopping mall looking for a mate. Actually, in the near future there will be no humans because no species survives forever. And that is the end of our report.........and humanity.

Answer 3

As far as what we will look like in the future - it greatly depends on what happens in the future with our environment. Our socio-political systems - as secure as they may seem, are quite fragile - and if we had a series of disasters - as people like Gore etc. talk about where we have flooding and droughts and all such manner of terrible things - or just as bad, a super-volcano event where it caused a "nuclear winter" that killed crops... the sick and decrepit - the people who rely on pills, as well as the many in so called "civilized" nations who have crap immune systems because we sanitize everything we touch now - would die of a variety of illneses, and those of us left would be left to let evolution do it's thing of changing as conditions dictate, and not what some geneticist can do in a lab now - no matter how pretty or athletic they can make your child, it will depend on conditions for survival. If the earth increasingly became warmer and dryer, perhaps the dominant traits would be darker skins, leaner bodies with very efficiant cooling systems... if there is another ice age, we could very well resort to the almost Neanderthalic build of very short, stocky, well insulated bodies who though we would consider "fat" are very healthy and strong, but just built for the environment. They would have the ability to burn high ammounts of carbohydrates and calories and use protienes to create heat energy to help them survive. Humans as a species may eventually come close to extinction - or possibly will become extinct - due to crisis events, but when our populations come under check; the weak die and the strong survive, and pass those strong traits to the next generation. Humans have the capacity to adapt (not evolve) fairly rapidly to become masters of the environment. Remember, even though we have been homo sapiens sapeiens for the past couple hundred thousand years - we as a species have changed to adapt to different climes, and it has only been in the past one hundred years that we have come to rely on computers, cars and gagets - much less reliable medicine - to help us along. realistically, we may appear a bit different, but we will remain for the most part unchanged.

Answer 4

One world-ism will cause the slow disappearance of "the white man". What will remain will be all people of mixed nationalities. Conflicts over race may go away, but trouble will still be caused by economic haves and have nots.

Even now the middle class in the USA is shrinking, replaced by a growing lower class and those fabulously wealthy at the top (which some day the poor will go after, far worse than in the French Revolution).

Answer 5

First off, to correct two things, Darwin never recanted his theory of evolution and it is as near proven as any theory and second, America has an increasing middle class, increasing wealth, and so what LtCoronel said was nonsense. I suspect that genetic engineering will one day be quite possible so that people will be able to ensure their children are smart, pretty, healthy, etc. The possibilities are kind of scary.

Answer 6

A Chimp! No kidding. I will prove it. Because the Universe was expanding after the Big Bang and the Earth was created after that, humans (according to Darwin - not me), were created due to the pressures and natural reactions of the elements etc etc.

Now, after a long time, the universe will start to die and shrink with the Sun going out (slowly) and all things will lose their potency and humans will shrink and hobble...........etc.

Answer 7

If we continue to rapidly destroy the world we live in, we will look like rotting corpses.. because that is what we will be.

In response to tehabwa's answer, organisms NEVER stop evolving. However, natural selection may not be as strong of an agent. There are many more agents of evolution my friend - genetic drift, gene flow, mutations, plus the possibility of more we have not yet discovered.

Answer 8

we do not know.

Unlike religion science does not have all the answers.
Science just gives a way to find the answer - logical reasoning based on hard facts.

One hypothesis is that we become slow fat creatures with excessively agile hands, so we can operate our computers.
But with current stereotypes of beauty and health, this is not likely. Athletic people are still more likely to procreate.

A more probable hypothesis is that brain will continue to develop and become more complex, while physical apperance will remain the same.

Answer 9

Just the same as today. Human is a species. If there was a radical change or mutation to the human geome, then there would be a new species that does not have a name yet.

Answer 10

You MEANT to ask 'what will human beings look like in the future.'

Since we have disturbed the natural course of evolution by introducing artifical means of survival, there is no way to guess.