Evolution...?
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well seeing how we've made a society there really isn't anything that gives say a short person with no stamina a lower chance of having kids than a normal sized athletic person...
I say our next steps will be Genetic modification or cybernetic (implying religious groups dont shit themselves)
I say our next steps will be Genetic modification or cybernetic (implying religious groups dont shit themselves)
Seeing as we allow things that shouldn't survive, live, nothing because naturally certain things would die off, not saying we should kill other people because they have undesirable traits, but do you think that naturally the mentally retarded would live? Probably not, but we are letting everything live, not just what works so we are messing with everything. Surprise, humans messed more shit up.
Everyone lives and goes on to reproduce so natural selection is gone. Thus evolution is basically done for us humans. So yeah....
i think we wont evolve or if we do we will get weaker, stupider etc
Cause as humans we change the world to suit us. evolution is about changingthe species to better suit the world.
so no evolution for us unless we stop inventing stuff to change the world.
just cause people arent dieing from being eaten by a lion doesnt mean natural selection is gone.
Cause as humans we change the world to suit us. evolution is about changingthe species to better suit the world.
so no evolution for us unless we stop inventing stuff to change the world.
you must have a sheltered life. people die young all the time so natural selection is still alive and well unlike all the people who die from speeding when they are young, die from taking drugs, smash their balls during a skateboard trick.lovemyredguitar said:
just cause people arent dieing from being eaten by a lion doesnt mean natural selection is gone.
Oh look, I just got stereotyped and circuitously called an arrogant ****. So much for civilized conversation.Blitzwing said:
Truth in television.
Besides, I didn't say that was the only possible outcome that is completely and utterly locked in, did I? I provided other possible outcomes. The idiocracy theory is just one of many potential futures.
When we have a need to evolve. Evolution is a genetic mutation that serves to make us superior at surviving then others of our species. Allowing those with the mutation to reproduce and pass it on. We're the only species in the solar system that doesn't adapt to the environment. We have no predators to hide from. We are the kings of the animal kingdom and we shape the environment to meet our needs.
The only time we will ever even have the chance to evolve is when civilization itself dies.
The only time we will ever even have the chance to evolve is when civilization itself dies.
We'll probably become more dependent on technology and more tolerant to bad diets. Possibly to the point that we can't survive without either. Evolution is adaptation not improvement.
Its already been predicted that 6 fingers is the next logical step. However as humans have begun conscious thought it is less likely this will occur.
And if the most major attribute that leads to an extreme amount of reproduction in an environment is being uneducated, then what?Blitzwing said:
We don't need to survive in the wild. We have police officers and Wal-Marts. No need to be fit.
We don't need to be intelligent to survive. Sure, in the recession its harder for unskilled laborers to get jobs, but its still possible, and most countries have some form of health care. No need to be intelligent to reproduce.
With no need to be fit, and no need to be intelligent, how does evolution promote good for the species?
No pinky toe--it's shortening anyways.
Ring and pinky fingers completely autonomous. I.E., you can control one and the other totally separately. Might not actually happen but it would make a lot of sense and be a nice jump.
Increase in brown fat cell count. It's already happening.
Hopefully a body able to process high fructose corn syrup as easily as we can process real sugar right now. Since in America, at least, fucking everything has HFCS in it. And I mean almost literally everything.
That's maybe it. Everything else doesn't have to change, since we are a fairly unique species in that we adapt our environment to us, and we make stuff that does stuff for us (robots and the like). So we don't really need to evolve to do what we don't do anyways.
Ring and pinky fingers completely autonomous. I.E., you can control one and the other totally separately. Might not actually happen but it would make a lot of sense and be a nice jump.
Increase in brown fat cell count. It's already happening.
Hopefully a body able to process high fructose corn syrup as easily as we can process real sugar right now. Since in America, at least, fucking everything has HFCS in it. And I mean almost literally everything.
That's maybe it. Everything else doesn't have to change, since we are a fairly unique species in that we adapt our environment to us, and we make stuff that does stuff for us (robots and the like). So we don't really need to evolve to do what we don't do anyways.
We'll get rid of what we don't need (appendix, tailbone, etc.), but other than that I don't see the human race evolving any further. The only evolution we need is evolution of technology. We can shape this world to fit our needs, so we as organisms don't need to change.
