so if we evolved from fish and monkeys what will we evolve into next?a new species?

Question

how long will it take for it to happen...or will it happen?
just curious!
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Answer 1

Prob won't happen as we have become a species that depends mostly on our innovation and ingenuity to progress. So most likely our form of evolution will be mostly a logical and mental evolution, which has been happening ever since language began.

Answer 2

not necessarily - think how many things are still around that are similar or even essentially identical to their long-ago ancestors. Some things (think of cyanobacteria, for instance) are so successful in a stable niche that they never have any need to change. Other things die out without changing. Humans, of course, are both very adaptable and very mobile, so there are going to be just as many adaptive pressures in the future as in the past. All we need is reproductive isolation between populations and time, and we should get diversification and eventually species separation. End results could be anything - in the nearish term, a different species of Homo, but millions of years from now, who knows?

Answer 3

Honestly we'll probably nuke our species off the planet before we have a chance to speciate.
And even if we did - we wouldn't necessarily disappear..unless the new species dominates and exterminated us, or we just may not be as suitable to survive in the future environment, and in that case we'd probably go extinct.

For instance, for the next ice age, people who are genetically "hairier" or with a slower metabolism may stand a better chance of surviving through the ice age than those without.. so perhaps after the ice age, the genetic tendency will be towards inviduals who are heavy set with thick body hair. :)
It's speculative, and in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter - because none of us will be alive in the many thousands of years it would take for something like this to happen.

Answer 4

Eventually, if we don't go extinct, we will evolve into something that is unrecognisable from what we are today. At that point we will be a new species, yes.

It's important to recognise that evolution doesn't work by species turning into other species that already exist. It's a branching process - so the descendants of an existing species will always form something quite new, although it might have superficial similarities with other creatures.

For example, although dolphins and sharks share the same habitat and have some external similarities, they are quite different - sharks have gills, whales have to breathe air.

So we won't turn into anything that already exists, but we might well turn into something similar. Something that's not impossible is that we lose our intelligence and go back to being forest-dwelling creatures similar to other apes - but even then, we won't be "chimps" or "gorillas", we will be "ape-humans".

Answer 5

Well we didn't evolve from anything, and we won't evolve into anything either.

By the way, there is no evidence at all that fish have ever evolved whatsoever. Fossilized fish look just like fish today. There are no fossils of half-fish half-reptiles.

Further more there is no observed mechanism to support the idea of such evolution.
Evolutionists hypothesize that animals can change into different kinds of animals by means of natural selection working on genetic mutations.
These alleged mutations need to add vast amounts of genetic information. However no such genetic mutation has ever been observed. Mutations are information neutral or lossy.
'But evolution is too slow to see' protest the evolutionists. Well then it's not observable and not worthy of being even called a theory. In any case, time is the enemy - mutations are resulting in the degradation of the gene pool - that is observable.

Alternatively just trust in evolutionary fairy tales, but careful not to check the evidence too carefully :)

Answer 6

Bearing in mind that evolution is driven by natural selection. One possible scenario is that within the following centuries, humankind will make more and more inroads into space enabling people to live and work in space. We already know that the stresses of space on astronauts caused by the lack of gravity can affect the human body quite significantly (e.g. bone loss). So it is possible that childbirth in the space environment could put major pressures on the development of the fetus most often leading to frequent premature abortions no matter how far advanced our technology is at that time. Therefore, this may favor a whole generation of 'space children' carrying genes that are best suited to their survival in space.

Answer 7

With the biotech revolution we will be able to take control of the processes governed by evolution in the past.
The future is only limited by our ability to regulate this science. the only limit will be what is physiologically possible
We could eradicate genetic disease build ourselves new organs, make People live for thousands of years create very extraordinary people but there is a risk we could make terrible and frightening monsters.

Answer 8

evolution is guided by what traits allow a creature to best reproduce and continue on. in this case I think we're "devolving" because the people that seem to reproduce the most are the one's too stupid to figure out how to use a condom. That being the case I think we're going to evolve into fat drunk rednecks who sit around and watch racing all weekend.

Answer 9

evolution takes place in order for a species to survive, according to Darwin's survival of the fittest theory. as humans are already very capable to survive we don't need to evolve so it is unlikely (but not impossible)

Answer 10

Yes we are all going to turn into Monk fish , Oh My God i think i just ate a relative