If you believe in evolution and assuming there won't be a catastrophic event that'll wipe out all of humanity,

Question

how do you think humans will evolve in the next 100,000 years? 1 million years?

If you don't believe in evolution, where do you think humans will be technologically speaking in these time frames?

I'm not looking for a religious debate, just your thoughts on how humans will evolve physically or technologically hundreds of thousands of years from now.

Answer 1

It is beyond our imagination, but I'll give it a shot. I think that our craniums will grow in size as intelligence grows. In order to support our heads our neck muscles will increase to some degree to handle the weight.

Our skin color will be different. It will change to be more protectant of the sun as a response to growing cancers. We will probably be darker. That is, unless we start to stay indoors more, in which case our skin will lighten.

We already know that our eyes are getting darker. Brown eye color is winning out. We won't have an appendix and we won't have as many teeth. These are things we are already seeing.

As the Earth warms (if it continues to do so for a long period) people will eventually thin out a bit, not needing the fat stores. It is very possible that our fingers will become slightly more slim as we use them more and more with time (just look at typing). But we use our individual toes less and they are getting smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if we have one solid foot that only has the toe bones inside to assist with balance. We will continue to gravitate toward less body hair with time.

All of these things will become more uniform throughout the races with time.

Technologically, I couldn't even imagine. I'm sure that there are limitations, and I wouldn't be surprised if people in that time watch our Star Trek shows and compare them to their history books.

Language would be unrecognizable to us, because it also evolves. It will be more universal than it is currently as the world becomes a smaller place figuratively.

Then again, that is if we are all still on Earth and not somewhere else by that time. But who knows.

Answer 2

evolution has NO direction! the characteristic's of whatever group has the most reproducing children will dominate in the future. for instance if stupid people have more survivors then people in the future will on average be stupider than now. if people with 6 toes have more then most future people will have 6 toes etc. the one sure thing is since the environment no longer has any bearing on reproductive success & we are now a world wide culture with only 1 out of every 7 people having white skin. skin color will average out to a light brown in time and people world wide will look more like each other than now except in isolated inbred pockets.

Answer 3

I think we're on the cusp of something big that will occur within the next 100 years. According to Moore's law, the total sum of human knowledge will be doubling every 72 days by 2025...you will see things in your lifetime that will make our current level of technology seem primitive. If our technological evolution will be that fast in only 18 years, how can "anyone" predict something 1000 times as distant, especially since the speed of progress is going vertical?

Answer 4

It's easily observed and proven that mainly uneducated and less attractive people breed.
Most successful and intelligent people have very very few offspring.
As a result, there will emerge two distinct, but very lopsided groups of people. Incredibly smart and beautiful people comprising maybe 5% of the population. And incredibly dull, stupid, ugly, and obese people comprising 95% of the population.
The beautiful geniuses will control everyone else, will be able to think on several orders of magnitude higher levels, and will eventually not even be able to breed with the lower class herd.
Basically two distinct human species.
If you look at some of the people who shop at walmart and compare them to the people who can buy anything they want, they don't even look like the same species as it is. It's night and day, and will continue to diverge at an increasing pace.

Answer 5

Physically the unused and redundant body parts will be bred out of us, like the appendix and the small toes.
Technology will provided us with all the health care, with nano robots in our blood stream, repairing damaged cells and fighting viruses.
Technology will also enhance the brain with bolt on accessories to improve cognitive stimuli.
But all of the above is happening NOW, and research into nano technologies is today's science, and direct brain stimuli is also still in the research stage.
So a million years?
Who knows!
But I bet someone will still be asking, does God exist?

Answer 6

It's possible that another evolutionary jump will be made, similar to our ancestors being able to walk upright or being able to think abstractly. Perhaps a new homo sapien will emerge. Our bodies will wither and our minds will take center stage in our evolution, as we gradually use technology more frequently in our lives.
It's likely that we will have relocated to other planets, and that space travel will be commonplace.
If all else fails, we'll be extinct. Let's just hope man's ingenuity allows us to escape the inevitable apocalypse that we've created, due to man's severe exploitation of resources and lack of consideration towards the planet.
Honesty I haven't any idea what the future will have in store for us.

Answer 7

splendid .like where are the flying cars ? planse have wheels .now those might be gone by the time your question entales.i'm more with the other theory .catastophic .and the earth will be in control .we survive .in a caveman like era ,but with devastation .
i once read a book.like that with other strange creatures.
and it made me aware ! aside from the creature feature ,could happen.
ah ,the book.turned up missing.and no seen it.i got blamed for making it up. oh well .guess then it never happens?

Answer 8

Evolution (human wise) still needs a trigger... we won't evolve since we are using technology to "protect" us (entertain also lol) let's say we have an event that would destroy everything (except the human race) we could maybe head into some evolution slate but until then... guess we won't turn all red with bigger palmed feet...

Answer 9

OMG I was just wondering this same question a couple of months ago!

I asked someone who replied that we probably have already stopped evolving for the most part.

My thoughts are that things that are ingested or things that externally affect us PRIOR TO our having babies WILL affect the future generations. For example, if, say, hydrogenated oils somehow accumulate in the eggs of preteens and then that somehow affects the babies that are born.... I AM TOTALLY MAKING THIS UP, but it does seem to be a possibility....

Answer 10

I thinh that within 100,00 years we humans will look like the little green or gray beings that fly around in flying saucers. Our bodies will be small due to lack of physical activity, our mouths small due to our ability to psychically communicate, and our heads nice and plump due to our expanded brain size.