Human Evolution

KRASHED

KRASHED

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I often wonder where the evolution of humans is going. When you look backwards into the past we have obviously shed and gained characteristics that were necessary/unnecessary for adapting to our environments. Skin color, hair color, body hair, skull index, orbital thumbs, the loss of our tails and muscular-skeletal characteristics have all evolved to suit where we are at.

Now with a world in which being the strongest and most adaptable seems to become less of an issue for survival where do you think human evolution will lead us to? You can be skinny, nonathletic, ugly but if you've got a decent set of brains in your head you can survive and reproduce. Globalization has messed with the integration of different races that thousands of years have differentiated (in terms of physical characteristics).

What are your thoughts? More fingers? Tall humans? Larger brain cases? De-evolution?
 
because of all the preservatives we ingest, we are actually decaying slower than we did in the past after we die....so im guessing thats changing our evolution somehow
 
there was an article about this on yahoo news awhile ago...not sure how credible it is, but the guy predicted we split into two distinct races (over thousands of years). one would be superhumans basically very big around 7ft on average and physically attractive. the other would basically be like pymies. is was based largely on our improvements in medicine and our "mating habits" ie wealthy/good looking people stick to people within in this crowd.
 
I don't thinks humans will really evolve anymore, because it used to be survival of the fittest would survive and reproduce. Now even the weakest and most stupid people have kids, and everyone can reproduce, not just a certain group, making it a little harder to evolve. However I do think that eventually after a long long time everyone will have a brownish/darker skin color, because eventually everyone will have some black in their gene pool.
 
Oops, I meant, because it used to be survival of the fittest, only the strong and smart would survive and reproduce.
 
if anything going to keep evolving, it'll be our brain. But also, humans didn't actually evolve from monkeys, we evolved from apes; there were never any tails involved.
 
by the year 2060 there will be no more natural blonde hair colored babies, i must preserve my blondness for as long as possible to remind people of what life used to be like, that's evolution.
 
We are the only species that takes care of the sick and ones close to death. This is going to cause a super virus to wip us out.

I say let the cancers and colds run wild. Its called adaptation.
 
Singularity........look it up. Im pretty sure that is where humanity is heading...pretty crazy shit.
 
In some sense, we're highly manipulating our species own evolution, yes. By keeping and letting less fit individuals (eg, people with bad eyesight that need corrective surgery, diabetics or people born with heart conditions), we're tainting the gene pool from a strictly evolutionary point of view. Now, I certainly dont agree with that view, but I do wonder where we as a species are going... Take for example, a fugly gene. If people have corrective plastic surgery to cover up the effects of this gene and make themselves look beautiful, then this gene may no longer be selected against, and could run wild in the population. Then again, if plastic surgery could fix its effects quite easily, would our species care?

One thing is for sure however. Globalization is blending our species gene pool like never before. Its good in some sense, but organisms that share more similar genes are naturally more susceptible to viruses, pathogens and parasites. Its going to be interesting if the expansion of our technology can prevent some of the natural yet destructive effects of what our species is doing to our DNA.
 
The concept of singularity used to excite me, but after more existential questioning over the past years i'v been holding onto concepts more along the lines with the book Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn.

The paradigm stated by Quinn is that the evolution of man has been basically been split into two, the takers and givers, with the roots of argiculture as the birth of the "takers." The definition for takers that he proposes mostly surrounds "taking more than we need" and is the end of species variation (this is bad).

In short, it is as if we are not playing natural selection by the rules, therefore the evolution were seeing is not natural at all, but rather a side-shoot towards a direction of being at war with the earth itself until we kill ourselves off. The future of Human evolution is definitely not as bright has most people imagine.
 
i was going to bring this up too

essentially the evolution of the human race stopped when we ceased to be hunter-gatherers and became what we are today...

blame socialism!
 
well natural selection has stopped for the most part id say.

has anyone seen idiotocracy? funny movie about how evolution is going to make a world of absolute retards
 
I can see it happening. It would take a few hundred or thousand years, but eventually with all this technology coming out, athletecism won't be admired as much as it used to be. Instead you'll be cool and intriguing if you can reprogram a network, or build some cool thing. Nerds are the future. Thats why I wish I got into computers more at a younger age like my brother, he can get a job whenever he wants for a minimum of 75 grand/year and he's still got a year of college to go.
 
false statement while watching meerkat manor or however it is spelled they said meerkats do the same things along with humans...
 
you are right but for the wrong reason... major physical evolution in humans is over

example: modern humans don't "evolve" fur in cold climates, we build a thermal jacket
 
i think we're going to start mixing with machines more. like for survival or w. ev reason. i think that if people are still around X time from now we'll be part technology.
 
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