How do I go about evolving?

Question

I want to evolve into something else. I want my kids to be able to fly. How can I force a change in my genetics by myself to enable the first stages of wings and feathers to be included in my children when I reproduce. The thing is I don't want to use any laboratories or unnatural processes.

If evolution did it without laboratories and genetic engineering, surely there is a way for me to deliberately direct these mutations in a positive way by myself.

Thanks for your help in this.

okay. how can i change my DNA then? i understand that somehow these DNA changes happened by chance and brought about positive changes to the animals. so i just want a way i can naturally and deliberately (probability = 1) cause some changes in my DNA for my kids to have some wingstubs when they are born. then i will teach them how to change their DNA naturally so their kids can grow some bigger wingstubs.

it shouldn't be too hard for me to do on purpose if evolution does it by chance.

i know it happens over hundreds of generations. i want to know how i can get it started today.

now i'm confused, i thought it was a result of my DNA changing. but I'm also being told it's a result of the environment. does living in a certain way change my dna? how do i get this to happen in a positive way? most people who dna changes today a mutants and freaks.

only in the sense that it is an abnormal or irregular occurrence.

Answer 1

It's humanly impossible to evolve into something else.

Answer 2

It happens over hundreds of generations.

You can't get it started today. You would have to apply the same selection pressure to your descendants for thousands thousands of years. If you could persuade all your descendants to bring up their kids in a particular way or environment for the next 5000 years then you could make them evolve, but how could you affect the future that much?

Okay, this is really DNA for beginners now, you know?
DNA controls the characteristics of cells and organisms. Natural selection controls the abundance of certain genes within any population, so environmental conditions affect the DNA of an average member of that population. All living things gradually change to fit their environment better. Mutation is random and strong mutations cause deformation and death, but small mutations can be beneficial and become incorporated into a species, by positively affecting number of offspring. Animals learn to fly when some members of their species die because they are unable to fly (or glide, in the early stages), or when ones that have managed to develop a rudimentary method of flight become more successful and competitive.

It is most commonly theorised that animals develop flight as an efficient way to move around in the trees. They begin by gliding and gradually nature makes them more and more effective through 'survival of the fittest'.

These Wikipedia entries may be interesting to you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_and_gliding_animals

Answer 3

you won't be able to. Evolution works on living structures, and slowly modifies them over time. you can't just grow wings.

Evolution works on populations, and they change over time. Any characteristic that you acquire over your lifetime cannot be passed on (unless it is in your DNA).

But the good news is that some of your ancestors did evolve in to flying organisms and they became bats. Bats are mammals and can fly.

And you evolved such a big brain you can figure out mechanically how to make a machine that allows you to fly.

Answer 4

Evolution doesn't work like that. Evolution works by killing off anything that is less adaptable to the current conditions and it takes thousands of years. Besides, birds have been evolving for at least 65 million years.

Answer 5

get bit by a spider like spider man d:^D

Answer 6

Not asking stupid questions is a start.