Evolution...?

[ultimateownage]

Evolution doesn't work like that.
We won't evolve suddenly like that, evolution takes so long it's almost unnoticeable. I doubt we'd even evolve anyway, we have no reason to do so with out technology. We don't need to adapt any more.

 

[DarkShadow144]

I really hope the intelligence of mankind is the next thing to improve because if these Jersey Shore pricks are going to be around for much longer i hope 2012 is real and New Jersey is the first to go

 

[spartan1077]

Well, I really hope our third eyelid comes back in so we no longer have to blink...

 

[Haydyn]

I see small changes continuing such as people getting taller because height is seen as a positive trait when mating (more commonly for males, but for females it does help to not be 5 foot 2.)

Hopefully our bodies will stop having a certain trait that makes us eat large amounts of food when we get the chance to. Sure,it helped back when food was scarce, but now it just makes people fat.

 

[DanielDeFig]

Considering the fact that we actively seek out to save and keep alive human beings, who would not be able to survive or continue living without outside help (Myself being an example of someone who would have died before reaching one month of age, without serious surgery), its obvious that the human race is not going to evolve any further.

If anything, i'm looking forward to when we reach a technological level where even coma patients are able to join the army (using their brain activity to remotely control tanks, in the style of Warhammer 40K dreadnoughts).

 

[icame]

We'll all gain vegan powers.

 

[lacktheknack]

Let's admit it. Idiots get more sex. It's why Jersey Shore is so popular. But it can't go on, or in millions of yeas all that will be left of mankind will be douche bags with fake tan on.

I notice that when idiots get pregnant, however, they tend to abort the child.

I have no idea what's coming next. People who vomit cash? That would be nice.

 

[Killersamman]

I dont think we really evolve anymore... we no longer have "survival of the most adaptive to change" because we can change the environment to suit us? (like wearing more clothes during an ice age?) so we wont evolve... or evolve really slowly.

The only thing i can think of is by using genetic engineering (after all fuss reminiscent of the first medicines have blown over) we'll get a generation free from genetic diseases...

 

[Piflik]

Unfortunately there is no more evolution. People tend to mistake Evolution as something with direction, with an objective, but it isn't so...Evolution relies on random mutations and only if a trait has some advantage regarding propagation, it will be inherited in future generations, but this doesn't happen anymore. Reason one: anyone can breed if he really wants to and two: if you are too radically different, you cannot, because men/women don't find you attractive, so it would actually be an evolutionary disadvantage to 'evolve'...

 

[tgr]

Has anyone here even seen Idiocracy? If so, then that's pretty much what I'm expecting.

Yeah, I read the name of this thread, and Idiocracy was the first thing that came to mind...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

 

[captaincabbage]

Maybe some gills? Or at least the ability to hold breath longer and swim harder, like dolphins and other sea mammals.

 

[spartandude]

im really ashamed at how many people fail to grasp what evolution is and how it works. its really not difficult to understand

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

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?

 

[A Pious Cultist]

im really ashamed at how many people fail to grasp what evolution is and how it works. its really not difficult to understand

Actually its a complicated theory with many nuances.

Sure you could simpify it to survival of the fitess but that would cause people to draw misled conclusions like the many people who probably think we evolved from apes instead of us sharing a common genetic ancestor.

 

[spartandude]

Maybe some gills? Or at least the ability to hold breath longer and swim harder, like dolphins and other sea mammals.

i literally LOLed

 

[Verp]

A brain that is better suited for comprehending the complex structures that we have created. As we are now, we are still pretty much maladapted to our own social structures because we're still physically and mentally very close to what we were when we still lived in small communities.

 

[Wintermoot]

the removal of your apendix and the removal of your nails in the year 9001

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Maybe a larger bone structure if people keep getting fatter on a regular basis, though I think there'll be something that'll come along and negate such a large amount of food in the western world.
Should the bone structure not become a necessity, heads will probably become larger, and stronger necks to support that. Which will in turn result in a slightly larger bone structure. It's a very roundabout thing.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

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

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

I understand that point, but I thought evolution was merely random changes over time that later carry on or die out. So I guess we would continue to evolve but since it probably wouldn't make us more likely to die then we'd reach a point of a lot of diversity.

There's no evidence to suggest that evolution has stopped. There will always be doubters due to the inconceivably slow nature of the process...you cannot witness evolution in humans for yourself.

Evolution isn't(nor has it ever been)a straight line. Mutations will continue to occur and some will be advantageous(medically, athletically, mentally, socially)and some won't. It's not over just because we are living more comfortably.