Along an evolutionist train of thought, what is the future of homo sapiens?

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And what kind of traits (superior or inferior intellect, appearance, etc) will the evolved species from homo sapiens have?

Jim, maybe you need more than a "biologist" credential to speak with an open mind. I asked about the future of homo sapiens, which no one knows but conjecture. This is Y! answers, should I have italicized too and added the trinomial name, H. s. sapiens? Loosen up!

Please visit the links below FYI.

Who else has a train of thought on evolution but an evolutionist?
http://medical.merriam-webster.com/medical/evolutionist

The term means a student of evolution or one who espouses evolution, as properly used in the link below.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/darwin/evolutionist/dawkins.htm

I understand your need to be precise and accurate in your work as a "biologist", but you can relax here and let others do as wish! :) :) :)

And smile. Have a great day!!!

"Why contemplate evolutionary change if you don't understand evolution?"--Jim

Why do children contemplate life if they don't understand it? I do not know how you structure your knowledge base, but I know that in my architecture of knowledge, it isn't linear. The way one acquires knowledge of a particular unfamiliar subject is without a particular method. The way you approach this matter indicates to me you're not a flexible thinker and tolerate little ambiguity. You need hard facts for your comfort. While I don't propose mediocrity or half-wit understanding, I do believe your approach disheartens any students of evolution, as interest ranges from curiosity to obsession. Your comments are very controlling and obsessive, but since I like criticism, i do appreciate your reply. Next time, be kind--people aren't petri dish specimens to fling around ;)!

Answer 1

I have a problem with your word usage. Evolutionist is a derogatory term used by Christians and Creationist to designate anyone that accepts evolution as fact or even theory, to be an adversary or non-believer. You should have writing evolutionary train......

You also made an error by not capitalizing the h in Homo sapiens. The genus is always capitalized.

There is no one in the scientific world that thinks there will be a new species of human or humanoid. Human kind will change for sure. There will be genetic engineering to rid Homo sapiens of many gene related conditions, like Downs Syndrome.

So basically you question does not seem to be very well thought out. You don't seem to have a grasp of the basics of evolution. Why contemplate evolutionary change if you don't understand evolution?

I wanna remind everyone that you are responding to a question. Just answer the question. Do NOT make comments about other peoples answer. You may vote for or against it, but please keep your comments to yourself. Review the Community Guidelines.

Answer 2

It is very unlikely that evolution will continue for homo sapiens. We have took all environmental pressures of ourselves, and so no one person is more likely to survive in a particular environment than another (give or take bit).

So, for example, no person that is born with no little fingers or toes will be more likely to reporduce than a person born with all normal fingers and toes, and so the popular concept that people wont have little fingers and toes in hte future does not really work.

However, it is likely that SOME evolution might occur. For exmaple, some carriers of certain diseases are more resistant to other dangerous diseases (CF carriers are resistant to dissentry and TB for exmaple), and so there may be more people (as a population) that are carriers for certain diseases. This will mean more people born with it, and more people passing the disease on to the next generation (except for possibly CF as much: CF sufferers are usually sterile).

Also, we may all get more attractive, due to the more attractive people being more likely to have more children.. ..although, this also isn't quite correct: how many super models have children?

Same for intelligence, except that many inteligent people are considered less attractive...

So, some evolution maybe, but because of the way we have altered it, not much!

Ashley

EDIT: Just to comment on the above answers: are people who are autistic or crazy more likely to reproduce? No, the opposite is true, so of course we will NOT all turn out to be crazy or autistic people.

Answer 3

This is not exactly known. There are many many theories ranging from complete extinction to increases cognitive function to everyone on the planet being autistic. Nothing can really be seen, as the only changes we see now are too small to notice, and often do not impact society, as we tend to work as a work-together society and not as a survival-of-the-fittest society.

Answer 4

We will develop into both human cyborgs, or adapt to new environments and we will be able to have 3 eyes with thick, elephant dermis for the nuclear wintry weather, or we will be able to all appear alike without a truly ethnicity becuase every person is combined.

Answer 5

The future is total extinction if we don't stop breeding like rats. Because of the world population and the religious beliefs that keep it going, we will use up all our resources, then, if we're still around, move to another planet to start all over and use up it's resources as well.