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What we'll evolve to ?
- Thread starter FearGod
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No idea, especially as scientific knowledge grows and we increasingly guide our own evolution.
Altfish
Veteran Member
No need to assume, that's a fact.
To answer the question, nobody knows.
I suppose useful traits might include the ability to text, walk and not get run over by a car.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
We have no way of knowing, as conditions will continually change, and there is no way to know exactly what they will change to.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Well, when you're at the bottom of the Handsome List, any movement must be up.
Also, we didn't "come from" apes, we are apes.
Well, when you're at the bottom of the Handsome List, any movement must be up.
That got me laughing so hard, I almost fell out of my chair.
Completely unknowable. Evolution is a reactive force, so what we´ll look like will wholly depend on how the environment shifts and changes over the next 100,000 years, which is impossible to predict.
That, too.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Generally speaking, human evolution has undoubtedly slowed down enough whereas major changes are not going to be likely in that relatively short period of time, and the reason for this is that large gene pools tend to change more slowly because it takes longer for recessive genes to become more common within that pool. For most of us in today's world, our gene pool is in the billions because of the ease of transportation and the migration of people.
FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
And we still have apes other than humans.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
We sure do. We came from a common ancestor. What's the problem?
IndigoStorm
Member
In terms of what we may look like in centuries to come, I doubt our physical appearance will change much provided that out environment remains the same.
What will continue to evolve is our intelligence. Intelligence can be described as the ability of an individual to acquire and apply knowledge and that is what will happen.
What will continue to evolve is our intelligence. Intelligence can be described as the ability of an individual to acquire and apply knowledge and that is what will happen.
Yes. There used to be other hominids, too, but they died out.
FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
And there was a time that apes existed but there were no humans yet.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
Yes. What's the problem. Those "apes" certainly aren't around today though.
jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
We haven't changed that much in the last 100,000 years, but that's mostly because our environments didn't change much over that time period. For the last 100 years or so we have drastically altered the environments that we spend most of our time in. We've also made our species very reliant on synthetic substances for survival. While those creature comforts are all good things, I don't really know if there is any precedent to what it can mean for our continued evolution. We are now producing more offspring that are prone to severe allergies and other genetic diseases, so in a sense we are getting weaker physically, while also expanding our abilities to keep ourselves alive longer. Since this is all just guess-work anyway, I'm going to assume that we become very synthetic-based, and more machine like - similar to what you see in Sci-Fi depictions of other space-faring cultures. We'll start interfacing our handheld devices directly into our brains, using our bodies for tasks that are mostly covered by external devices now. We'll be walking smart phones, and the biological aspect of our upkeep will become a nuisance more than anything else.
Transhumanism might be of interest here. Science and technology may well fundamentally change or enhance the human condition, but its still speculative.