• Under the theory of evolution, do you think man would still remain as he is now?

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• Under the theory of evolution, do you think man would still remain as he is now?

Answer 1

No we would evolve. Except now medicine and science are letting us define nature and genetics. . .

Answer 2

Evolution can tell you about the past and present, but does not predict futures.

Answer 3

Well things evolve to adapt to their surroundings so technically humans have already evolved. As far as in any other way I believe we still have some changing to do.

Answer 4

no.

i think that he will change a lot more.

at least maybe.

we get more efficent.

taller, less hair, etc.

we probably will get to the point where we may even evolve

back into apes or cave men.

there is a very less chance of that happening though.

anyway i think we will evolve more. maybe not a lot but we will.

Answer 5

It's very hard to answer this question definitively, as only time will tell, but there are a few different ways to look at it. Up to this point in human history, man has evolved to adapt to his environment and surroundings. Now, man doesn't have to adapt to his environment, because man can simply adapt his environment to himself.

As such, it is plausible that man may remain as he is now, because he has reached a point where it may not be necessary for him to evolve. In other words, man may have evolved into a form that is so ideal for survival and proliferation that any mutation or evolution would do more to  harm man's status than improve it. Basically, in this view, man himself counteracts the progression of his own evolution.

Another factor to consider is man's increasing ability to control and manipulate his own genetic make-up. Due to recent strides in science, specifically in areas such as cloning and genetic alteration, it may become possible for man to change himself and/or his predecessors into any form he may so choose. The ethics and morals of these possibilities will undoubtedly be called into question, but it is ever becoming a more realistic possibility. If these kinds of advances do occur, then man may not remain as he is now because he could change himself or his offspring to his own preferences.

Regardless of which possibility (those listed above, among others) becomes reality, one must always remember that evolution is an extremely slow, drawn out process. Whatever changes may occur in man's evolution, they may be very hard to detect, especially considering that the population of man's species is upwards of 6 billion across the world. If man is in fact evolving, the evidence of such changes would be unbelievably difficult to detect in the present. Only in retrospect will this question be able to be resolved with any kind of absolute answer.

Answer 6

evolution is fake, and stupid, God created us and that's it!

Answer 7

Yes, man has moved beyond natural selection. We are the dominant species on the planet and no one dies off due to a genetic trait. We have entered a new type of evolution; technological.

Answer 8

No, but no one alive today will ever see them.

Answer 9

About the height thing, we grow taller every generation because of advances in nutrition. People are eating more healthy, thus they grow. I do believe man will continue to evolve, but I do not think it will ever get to the point of perfection before the world s h i t s on us for our ignorance.

Answer 10

Not likely.  Only time will tell but it is unlikely that selection pressures will remain the same as they were to get us to this point.

Answer 11

We are still evolving. We never really stopped. Evolution is just such a slow process that we do not see it.

One example of evolution still at work is in our dental records. Wisdom teeth are vestigial characteristics. At one point in human history, they served a purpose. Humans ate nuts, grains, and other hard foods, and we needed those extra teeth for chewing. Then we began preparing foods and they weren’t as hard to chew. Over time, our jaws (and the rest of our head) have gotten smaller. Now, because of that, many people have to have their wisdom teeth removed because there is no longer room in our mouths. Also, people are now born without wisdom teeth.

BUT, just because we are still evolving in small ways doesn't mean we will change much. There are four basic mechanisms needed for evolutionary change: natural selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift. You also have to add the idea of random/nonrandom mating, which is important for natural selection and mutation. Humans don't randomly mate. We date, get married, mate, and produce offspring (not necessarily in that order). In today's societies, when we look for mates, we are not looking for the best possible traits to pass on to our offspring, we are looking for love (or money for any gold diggers out there).

So, yes, we are still evolving, just at an even slower rate than before (which was already excruciating slow to begin with) because we have changed our mating practices.

Answer 12

Man is most certainly evolving. Two traits that are obvious are average height and proportional length of second toe to big toe. Evolution is usually very slow. The changes aren't usually dramatic. So, no I don't think he will stay the same, he isn't even the same as he was 2000 years ago, though it might seem imperceivable from the view point of one person.

Answer 13

I thought the point of evolution was to improve. So if thats the case not a chance would we stay the same. Too many things still ail the human body to be any where near perfect.

Answer 14

Definitely not.

As we speak more and more people are being born with smaller jaws. and other stuff.

Answer 15

Nop probably evolue to something close and maybe because of the new technologie who knows?

Answer 16

No.

We continue to produce taller specimans, with larger feet, etc.  The average heighth of a man in the early 1800's was 5'5".

Just as a species of fish that lived in caves ceased to develop eyes because they weren't needed, evolutionary changes continue in many species.  The changes are just more subtle.

I was just thinking that the use of computors may sometime in the future change the shape of our hands to better accommodate keyboards.  For example, my grandchildren's fingers may be ever so slightly more uniform in length than mine.