What holds the future of evolution?

Question

What will we grow into? or will we grow back to mammals? I'm thinking maybe like a bird or something. We started off as an organism (on the ground) than to monkeys (still on the ground but walking) now I going with a bird, need to get up in the air. Or will we turn into flies than land on some meat and turn into maggots, than turn back into an organism. Man im so confused, pfffffff

Answer 1

I think we'll turn into super apes that can fly through the air like superman. But we'll still thow our poop.

Answer 2

If your are speaking specifically about human evolution, right now we're rather stagnant as there is little which is 'stressing' our survival. We, more or less, all have enough food, decent medical care. We survive birth, childhood diseases due to vaccines, and most infections- at least until we're old enough to procreate.

So- right now, we're not taking any big leaps in evolution.

However- given the overpopulation on the planet, some bad things are looming. For instance, a nasty virus might come through and wipe out 50% of us. So, the survivors will be the ones with an immune system defense that can survive the virus- and then all future generations will have this capability. (i.e. like what happened to the native populations of the americas in the 1500's)

Or, perhaps after a nuclear Armageddon, those that are left will be ones that have an increased resistance to radiation?

But- right now we're 'devolving'. i.e. evolving into a less hardy species as we rely on such modern technology just to survive.

Answer 3

We are mammals. We share an ancestor with chimps. We are evolving into something more than human. We see this everyday. It will take some time to get to homo superior, but we will get there.

Eventually, I have no idea. There actually may be a split and we could have more than one human race, though, what happened before to the (what 10?) races of man resulted in homo sapiens winning out.

Speculate, but it would be difficult not knowing all
environmental factors for the next 200 millenia.

EDIT:
To those above. I think this kid is naive. He seems to genuinely want to know. Naive means that the person doesn't know. Ignorant is that the person refuses to know.

Answer 4

I don't think that even the most brilliant evolutionary scientist could know the answer to this question. Evolution is part chance mutation but also largely natural selection based on environmental pressures. Since we seem to largely be adapted to our niche we don't have the selective pressures on us say that the finches Darwin studied did when their food sources changed drastically. Scientists however, seem to be finding that we are still evolving, particularly our brains. Its not a proven and somewhat controversial but mulitple groups are contending they are finding evidence of continued brain evolution. There are also findings on the evolution of our bodies ability to process some types of foods as our diets have changed as well as responses to diseases and environmental pathogens.

For there to be evolution of the sort to result in major morphology (outward appearance) changes would require lots of time and more change in the selective pressure of our environment in a certain direction. Yes, also we currently are mammals. Your question does seem like you are very confused about evolution and how it works.

Answer 5

Back in to mammals?

So we're not mammals now, then?

Mmhm...

Please obtain a dictionary and look up the definitions of 'organism', 'mammal' and 'evolution' just for starters. Your ignorance is embarrassing.

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Someone below has suggested you actually want answers - choosing to ask this in the religion room instead of say, zoology - makes me question that, but just in case -

Books:
‘The Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin
‘The Variety of Life’ by Colin Tudge
‘The Ancestor’s Tale’ by Richard Dawkins
‘Almost a Whale’ by Steven Jones
‘Evolution’ by Mark Ridley

Web:
http://www.talkorigins.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
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Answer 6

I saw a Discovery show - or History Channel show - I forget which, where tortoises become the largest animals on land ever to exist. And octopuses are on land. Amazing isn't it?

They had graphics that were pretty good - computer generated beasts. One of the octopuses killed a baby tortoise. Poisonous bites you know. It jumped . . . . . . on the neck of the baby tortoise. . . . . . it jumped! lol

I think they believe this stuff.

Answer 7

Right now we're just getting more resistant to disease. There aren't any other major selective pressures. Without knowing the selective pressures we will face in the future, we can't predict the exact results of evolution.

Answer 8

are you nuts? we may evolve a little but not turn into some f*uckin flies and birds and lower kind of mammals.

evolution means some kind of adaptation to enviroment.
we evolve to adapt. not to worsen our condition.

Answer 9

1st - we are mammals.

2nd - we don't know. I perosnally found Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos" to be an interesting perspective (but not one to expect to be a roadmap).

Answer 10

study evolution....

unfortunately "survival of the fittest" doesn't apply in our society anymore....

but if it did, i think some of the mutations people have had would take hold, and become a dominant species on earth...(extra fingers, bigger mouths, double jointed, etc etc...)