2007-10-16 20:11:43 · 14 answers · asked by foru0810 3 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Behaviorally yes, not physically. Homo sapience is probably the most adaptable multicellular organism alive. We can live, actually thrive, in almost any environment. Desert, forest, prairie, hot, cold, it's all the same to us. Even an abrupt change in our immediate environment doesn't phase us (as a species, doesn't necessarily apply to individuals). We simply change some behaviors and adapt. There are other animals who are pretty good at this. Raccoons and coyotes come to mind. Others such as most primates and aquatic mammals and vertebrates, have very little ability to adapt to change because they are so specialized to a specific environment. That's the long answer. The short answer; global warming, cooling or any other such change isn't going to bother Homo sapience at all. After all, we've been through it before, through and at the end of the last ice age..
2007-10-17 00:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by countrygent07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans may start to adapt to Global Warming, but I don't think theres any way for us to evolve quick enough to keep up with the changes.
2007-10-17 06:49:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope the humans cant evolve positively with global warming.. human beings unlike other organisms which evolved with nature, try to modify the ecosystem so as to suit their needs... for evolution to happen and mankind to be saved, we have to start adapting to the environment...
2007-10-17 05:42:39 · answer #3 · answered by Franc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humans will adapt to the environmental responses to global warming, i.e. moving to higher elevations to avoid a rising ocean line; but will probably not "evolve". Evolution is on a very long time scale.
2007-10-17 10:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolve? I would think that the human race will devolve, into dolphin-like creatures, in physiological response to living in mostly water from the melting ice caps resulting from global warming. See the film Waterworld starring Mel Gibson... or maybe Kevin Costner. He grows gills at the end!
2007-10-17 03:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Ariel P 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Humans will adapt to global warming, but, both the best (attitude) and worse (greed) of human will come out in the process.
2007-10-17 07:00:29 · answer #6 · answered by ANGEL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last human species that had biological adaptation to the environment was Neandertal. H*mo Sapiens adapt behaviorally to the environment. Therefore, while our cultures and behaviors will change (as the ALWAYS have in changing environments) we won't grow gills or second heads because of climate change. Climate has been changing for longer than life has been on the Earth.
Edit: H*mo was censored.
2007-10-17 12:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Heather 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps, but not likely. It takes generations and GW is happening in decades. This is the corollary to your other question: insects are more adaptable to environmental stimuli because their life cycles (generations) are so short; they evolve faster. You can consider a human generation to be approximately 20 years.
2007-10-17 14:14:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No disrespect but I have to disagree with AJ. Although mankind may be more intelligent, we're not very smart or we would see the threat and stop killing our forests and putting all the greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere. I don't see that happening so if we want to survive, we're gonna have to evolve somehow.
2007-10-17 06:12:58 · answer #9 · answered by Mikey D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
evolution... it won't matter what humans do in the first place. mother nature has total control. and besides what can we do about global warming anyways? are we to believe the oceans will dry up or somthing? what is the big deal anyways?
2007-10-17 03:16:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋