Humanity's Next Evolution?

[ZeroVex]

They say history repeats itself. If that's the case then humanity will evolve into Dinosaurs. And if THAT'S the case, I want my descendants to be T-Rexes.

 

[mrhappyface]

They say history repeats itself. If that's the case then humanity will evolve into Dinosaurs. And if THAT'S the case, I want my descendants to be T-Rexes.

More likely rats or weasels...But if dinosaurs, that would be interesting.

 

[ribonuge]

I don't know where the evolutional process will take us, but this is where it has so far.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

technically, there is no next evolutionary 'step'... the change happens gradually from generation to generation.

Now that I've got that out of the way, apparently we're slowly losing our little toe, as there as very little use left for it.

theres very little use left for the little toe, when was there ever a use for that damned thing.

 

[Simalacrum]

technically, there is no next evolutionary 'step'... the change happens gradually from generation to generation.

Now that I've got that out of the way, apparently we're slowly losing our little toe, as there as very little use left for it.

theres very little use left for the little toe, when was there ever a use for that damned thing.

...thats a very good point actually...

>.>

<.<

[HEADING=2]LOOK! whats that over there!?[/HEADING]

*runs away*

 

[feather240]

We don't. We devolve. As we gain more advanced health care we lose the need to have high endurance. We might evolve in some ways though. Smarter people will generally be less likely to die in society, and we can evolve through technology as our added research gives us the power of advanced cosmetic surgery. Now excuse me as I go upload Mr.Colberts' voice, a law degree, and buy some angel wings... Harvey Birdman...

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

The next big step will be us fusing with our computer. Believe me, this is will happen one way or another.

You mean I can become one with my Sasha? Huzzah!

 

[Olikunmissile]

Everyone will become like me. Perfect.

 

[mrhappyface]

We don't. We devolve. As we gain more advanced health care we lose the need to have high endurance. We might evolve in some ways though. Smarter people will generally be less likely to die in society, and we can evolve through technology as our added research gives us the power of advanced cosmetic surgery. Now excuse me as I go upload Mr.Colberts' voice, a law degree, and buy some angel wings... Harvey Birdman...

Damn you extensive health care! What happened to natural selection!!!!

 

[bcponpcp27]

Brown fat is the next stage! Those with more will be naturally more slender, landing the ladies (and men) like crazy.

 

[feather240]

We don't. We devolve. As we gain more advanced health care we lose the need to have high endurance. We might evolve in some ways though. Smarter people will generally be less likely to die in society, and we can evolve through technology as our added research gives us the power of advanced cosmetic surgery. Now excuse me as I go upload Mr.Colberts' voice, a law degree, and buy some angel wings... Harvey Birdman...

Damn you extensive health care! What happened to natural selection!!!!

We can... ...fix it.

 

[ModsDeleteThisAccountPlease]

One, we will be growing taller. Average height in Humans has been slowly growing since the 1600's.

Second, average intelligence i.e IQ, based of our growing skull size

third, larger foreheads as a result of a greater Frontal Lobe.

But my favorite hope in that we will grow Angel Wings. Who doesn't want to fly? it would be pretty freakin sweet. Unfortunately, unless we purposefully engineer it, wings won't happen. Evolutions motto, "If it works, don't fix it."

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I'd say we develop general immunity to some illnesses. then again, survival of the fittest hasn't exactly taken place.

 

[stone0042]

Seem to recall reading a medical journal somewhere that said our women would be shorter and weighing more, while our men would be taller and more muscular. Make of that what you will

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

Given the rate we're killing the planet, killing each other, killing ourselves, and utterly failing to kill all the new viruses popping up, I'd say corpses.

 

[Leon's Hell]

This man is the next step. HomoNovas.

 

[laststandman]

with the creation of society comes the creation of conformity as a method of survival. if we conform, it is easier to survive in the hostile world of society.
nonconformity is met with hatred from other members of society, and therefore those who do not conform do not survive. imagine if there was a person who could breathe underwater, but looked like Voldemort from Harry Potter. even though he may be more adept for survival than other humans, society would look down upon him for being ugly and not want to mate with him, and he would die without passing on his beneficial survival trait.
therefore, society itself will prohibit human evolution

But our environment changes us. For example, people who's ancestors have lived in Tibet or similar high evalation areas have larger hearts and larger lungs than say, people living on low evalation like in the Pacific Islands.

However, our bodies just dont decide to change because of the environment, they change due to genetic mutations. we are, essentially an ultramutated species that is more capable of surviving than the last. thats why Neanderthals died out, because they needed more calories to survive than we did. with that in mind, a genetic mutation that altered somebody's appearance would be negatively received even though their capabilities may exceed that of other humans, society will deem them to be unattractive and their genetics will stand a much lower chance of being passed on. therefore society stunts evolution on a grand scheme

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

technically, there is no next evolutionary 'step'... the change happens gradually from generation to generation.

Now that I've got that out of the way, apparently we're slowly losing our little toe, as there as very little use left for it.

theres very little use left for the little toe, when was there ever a use for that damned thing.

...thats a very good point actually...

>.>

<.<

[HEADING=2]LOOK! whats that over there!?[/HEADING]

*runs away*

"DAMN YOU YOU TRICKSTER, I WILL FIND YOU"

 

[Simon Hadow]

We're slowly gaining more proficient brains for our feilds of profession. Such as desk work, or working with computers. Depressed yet?

 

[Commissar Sae]

One, we will be growing taller. Average height in Humans has been slowly growing since the 1600's.

Second, average intelligence i.e IQ, based of our growing skull size

third, larger foreheads as a result of a greater Frontal Lobe.

But my favorite hope in that we will grow Angel Wings. Who doesn't want to fly? it would be pretty freakin sweet. Unfortunately, unless we purposefully engineer it, wings won't happen. Evolutions motto, "If it works, don't fix it."

part of that people being taller on average is due to better nutrituion rather than genes though. Until recently (past century)most people had a hard time eating a varied diet that rickets and stunted growth was fairly common. Honestly, 50% of the Russian recruits in WWI failed the height requirement for service which was well within the middle 5 foot range.