Are modern humans going to evolve in about a million years?

Question

We probably will. :)

Answer 1

Yes, and it will likely happen faster than that.

Search the site below for the whole phrases, "timeline of human evolution" and "Neanderthals":

http://www.sciam.com/

The point of it is, according to the latest evidence, the Neanderthals came and *went extinct* in the space of at most, 80,000 years. They were here and gone in *way* less than a million years.

And they evolved in response to a mere climate change. In a pristine, fairly pollution-free environment.

We have a climate change going on too, and our environment is polluted and contaminated with disease agents and toxins to a degree that is just *hard to imagine*, relative to the cleaner earth the Neanderthals walked. I could easily cough up *ten* different pollutants and disease factors that *individually*, by themselves, could singly speed up evolution and *have* done so already to a limited degree.

One good example of this is with Chernobyl, the nuclear reactor that went "Boom!" a while back. The natural mutation rates for shrews and voles in that region has increased *ten thousand fold* since the reactor blew up, due to the radiation levels being so high. New species evolve there *daily* based on higher levels of cancer and tumor resistance. Seriously, search the site below for the whole phrases, "Chernobyl area", "shrews and voles" and "mutation rates":

http://www.sciencenews.org/

And the messed up part of it is? We humans really don't *need* a disaster to happen to evolve. We've been doing it *anyway* in spite of civilization. Search the site above, for the whole phrases "recent mutations", "human brain size" and "human diet". If you can drink *milk* past infancy (and tolerate the lactose) you can consider it a mutant power of *recent* evolutionary origin. ^_^

So yeah.....we are *evolving* as we speak. Some of this is in response to stuff that's been going on since the dawn of literate civilization in ancient Egypt, and some more of it is in response to there being *six Billion* of us here on earth, and to our releasing a *LOT* of pollution and toxins and diseases rather carelessly into our environment. Global warming really is the tip of the melting iceberg on the pollutant issue.

I hope this helps. Thanks for your time! ^_^

Answer 2

You mean evolve into?
Our brains are still evolving and so is the rest of us. Technology has turned into a negative adaptation because our psyche was too slow. In a million years, there may well be no humans anymore. At the current time, we are close to having a runaway extinction event in progress.

Answer 3

It wouldn't be "IN" a million years, but OVER the next million years. That is, if it were happening or going to happen,it wouldn't suddenly happen X years from now, but would be a gradual process.

But I don't think we will.

We're too numerous and spread out for any advantageous mutation to take hold in the species as a whole.

Answer 4

No. Humans and other mammals all have a common ancestor that lived tens of millions of years ago humans, mammals and reptiles have a common ancestor from long before then. humans, mammals, reptiles and amphibians have one even before that. humans, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish have one even before that, which would be one of the first Chordates. Modern fish will not evolve into modern humans. No great mystery. Aqib, you just gave a great example of a Strawman fallacy. Congratulations if that was your intention. I pity you if it wasn't.

Answer 5

I was just trying to visualize a fully evolved human flying or swimming around like a real creature acting like they are holier than thou.

Answer 6

no we are the top of the line species
their is not longer any threat to the human population to force a drastic change in the species

if the weather changes we build something to change it back or find ways to live with it using technoloy not our bodies

not enough food we find a way to produce more with less

super viruses we find The cure; or kill all the sick

animal threat build better destructive tools

the only way i see a change is if we are able to explore another plant even then we might just change it to earth two instead of adapting to a new environment

Answer 7

maybe but who knows with the pollution ozone green house effect who knows if earth will be around to support these evolved humans,

Answer 8

devolve perhaps.. if you look at the new korn music video, it brings up a few good points.. smarter and more civilized people have only about 1.5 kids per family while very low iq, people aerage about 6..
check the video out... its interesting..
in evolution not everything moves forward.

Answer 9

scientifically the difference between each person in the planet is just o.oo1%
Do you know what happens when that percent is too low??(no matter what kind of species it is) that species disappears ... in a million years we wont be here

Answer 10

No, no they are not. God will probably have ended the world by then anyway.

Oh, and guys, the human population will not die out on it's own. We are not like other creatures... we may be physically similar, but other than we are so different, so very different.