Evolution...?

[Nimcha]

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Nothing directly to do with my earlier statement, I'm just saying that I think your being a bit too quick to dismiss what I had to say. I'm guessing because it freaked out out on a certain level. A lot of people react that way to be honest. A lot of what I said tends to elicit the same reactions that you get from people who are offended by the very idea of psychiatry and the fact that people and their personalities/thought processes can be approached successfully as a science.

Oh, that doesn't freak me out in the slightest. In fact, I'm currently studying psychology.

That's why I kind of keep poking you, your posts give me an insight into your mind. Or so I'd like to think.

 

[Maze1125]

People become smarter, faster, and stronger with each generation.

No they don't. Not for genetic reasons at any rate.

We constantly see athletic records being broken for this reason,

That's not evolution, that just people pushing themselves further and understanding their diet better. Record breakers from 1900 could have done everything record breakers of today do if they had the incentive and diet, but they had neither of those things.

Evolution isn't involved anywhere.

as well as the simple fact that we suffer a lot of social problems where children are concerned because they have been progressing intellectually (becoming smarter, faster) than our society wants to acknowlege or deal with, especially seeing as it still doesn't come with the emotional maturity and experience that one would expect with that level of intelligence. This is why we have so many "shocking" cases of child criminals, with kids doing things that people think they should not be capable of. The increased capabilities and intellect combined with childlike attitudes and an as-of-yet undeveloped moral compass means that on some levels we're living an omni-present "evil child" novel or movie. Of course such sociology (there has been a bit written on it) has little place here.

Children of today do thing we don't expect of them because modern society assumes people are children until they are 18. 200 years ago children were working from the age of 7 or younger, they still are in some places. Children have always been able to do the things they are today, the only difference is so many adults don't want to believe it.

Again, nothing to do with evolution.

The only kind of flashy POSITIVE evolutionary change that we might see would be the development of psychic powers. Of course that's pushing it, but it's remotely possible due to the fact that some scientists have allegedly found that we are verrrrry slowly using more and more of our brains. Depending on what those by and large "inert" portions of the brain actually do, if anything, we might see something impressive coming from that direction in following generations.

Humans are not using more and more of their brains. Why? Because we already use 100% of them. Any other idea is a myth.

The rest

Why would there be a force trying to stop humans from overpopulating? What would that force be. As it stands our numbers are still increasing. Overpopulation may be a problem one day, but it isn't yet. For the sake of spreading our genes, a gene which curbs our spreading would not be evolutionarily successful at all. The only time could be is if we were already in a situation where our numbers were causing us to starve. Which, in the western world, they clearly are not.

Again, as I said in my first post, evolution doesn't follow rules or care about the future, it is just a physical process where the gene that spreads itself the most becomes the gene which is most common.

 

[amppi1236]

That's a hard question to answer. Mostly because I don't know what you mean by "next step", Since evolution naturally takes millions of years. It happens slowly, so you don't notice it. For example: The egyptians where about half of our size. Meaning humans have slowly grown larger. Do you mean "next step" is a certain point in our future after about a million years from now, or do you mean "next step" is the next moment when we humans have completely evolved to a different form?

 

[Scarecrow]

I want either wings or gills...or both!

 

[twistedheat15]

*Squidbilly voice* EVOLUTION?! *pfft!* I ain't come from no monkeys butt hole!

 

[emeraldrafael]

hm.... Next step in evolution.

I think it will be a long ways off, but I think it will be the ability to have animalistic night vision while also having color vision. its not a stretch by any means. But that would be my guess.

 

[Lawllerskater]

We can't evolve further. Medicine and society has advanced so far as to allow anyone of any variety to live. Unless medicinal work and our society's benefits are wiped out, we won't really evolve.

 

[NeedAUserName]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

No, technology also affects our evolution.

If we become too dependent on machines, our body deteriorates. Eventually it will reach the point until we can not live without mechanical assistance.

You could argue thats devolution, not evolution. But I suppose thats just nitpicking.

 

[Maze1125]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

No, technology also affects our evolution.

If we become too dependent on machines, our body deteriorates. Eventually it will reach the point until we can not live without mechanical assistance.

What would the evolutionary benefit be to being unable to live without machines?

 

[Canid117]

There is no next step in evolution because it is not a planned process. Whatever we adapt too will be the next stage in evolution.

 

[fluffybunny937]

I want us to evolve into fishmen, like in One Piece ( http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Fishmen )

 

[Wrists]

I think the next thing we are expecting to happen is that in 100 or so years, women will be an inch shorter on average, as well as being stockier.

 

[BlueGlowstick]

we will breathe fire, or something like that.

Edit: HEY 200th POST!! awesome!

 

[Klopy]

Sadly, I think our next evolutionary step won't be cool. It'll involve some way for us to survive in the pollution we are creating.

 

[DiMono]

We're evolving away from having a pinky toe. So I'm going to go with that.

 

[Rainboq]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

What about self evolution? *cough*Bionics*cough*

 

[kikon9]

Scientifically, by developing the world, humans have broken natural selection and by extension, evolution for themselves. By allowing humans to live which wouldn't have under natural circumstances. The result is a stagnating gene pool, unless there is another dark age or a "light" apocalypse any time soon(And it would have to last for a while too), humans aren't doing any evolving in any non-artificial fashion.

 

[kikon9]

Ignore this.

 

[gunheads]

Probably due to a massive population and the increasing motivation of working together, I think something like a mental link, Like a chain linking the brains together, a human network if you will, Also, as proven a longer life span and taller, more lithe frame.

Yeah, but wouldn't we be able to do that with Technology? like internet connected to our brains?

OT: Pixar's Wall-E...... I don't see why not?

We can do that now, with something like an MIU (Mind impulse unit), But as more and more humans clame to be able to feel how others a feeling in a personal way, and the more 'psychic' people are pointing to a slow evolution of peoples brains to link.

 

[Yopaz]

Well, we might lose our tail bone and appendix, whichever comes first I wouldn't know. We might get a smaller gap between our toes since we don't need our feet to climb so we wont need to grip with them anymore. We will evolve to get lazier. Our heads might change shape or size. We might also get less hairy unless there's a turn in evolution.

Man... this is boring.

I think we will grow wings with machine guns that shoots high energy laser and make us able to travel to other planets without spaceships! ...nah, I don't.