Are We gonna evolve "further"?

Question

What i mean is that are we evolving more? Because now days our offsprings don't tend to get wisdom teeth. It is becase we have eveolved. But are we gonna evolve further? Is our brains gonna grow bigger? What are the most possibilities to our future evolution with the enviorment?

Answer 1

only a couple thousand or even millions of years will tell

Answer 2

Most likely

Answer 3

Yes. We will, and we are constantly evolving. Evolution is not necessarily progress, it is change. Change occurs at almost infitesimal levels in our genetic code all the time, and thus mutations occur. It will take a lot of time be able to see where our species is going next.

Answer 4

No. At least, I doubt it.

Most species are pretty stable through most of their existence.

We're spread all over, and have a vast, and intermingling population, so I don't see how any mutation could spread through the whole population.

And there's so much less pressure to evolve, as we have culture and technology.

What's more likely to happen than our brain getting bigger (we've probably reached our limit there, as childbirth is already difficult and often dangerous due to our brain size), is that, with less malnurishment during pregnancy and in the early years, there will be less retardation of brain development, so a higher average intelligence.

One good reason to get serious about poverty worldwide.

And, as we understand ourselves better, and that knowledge becomes more widewpread, we'll think and act smarter still. We'll be able to really educate people to be able to take better advantage of all we've learned and are still learning.

Answer 5

It is easy to say that humans are always evolving, as any student studying grade 10 science knows everything is in constant evolution. However, due to the way society is atm it is believed that humans are going to deevolutionize. Yes we are going 2 go back a step in the evolutionary chain. This is due to natural selection and the lifestyles we live today. In modern society the unintelligent, the overweight, the disabled and those with genetic disease are allowed to life due to modern technology. However, allowing all of these people to live normal lives and breed has an effect on the human race.

I have answered this quickly so have been unable to give any statistics or real data. So in order to convince you i ask you to look around. Look at what people do. Do you think we as a whole are all advancing and becoming smarter each generation, or is it the select few that create this technology that are advancing positively.

There is also one more thing i would ask you to think about. On average a below the average IQ couple will have 5 children, this means they are adding 3 children likely to gain this low IQ into the world. The average above IQ family has 1-2 children. This promotes a gain of -1 to 0 to the population.

Will the human race end up becoming overrun with unintelligent people and cause the deevolutionization of man... maybe, but it is starting to happen all around us as we speak.

In short... yes we are still evolving haha

Answer 6

Reported Genetic Disorders 1966 to 1999.

The number of medically reported genetic disorders in 1966 was 1,487. The number reported by 1999 was 11,099.

Medically reported human genetic disorders have been cataloged in the above reference since 1966. If evolution were true, then we should observe a decrease in genetic disorders over time according to the first definition of evolution, change over time, and the third definition, natural selection. That means that the graph would look like the hypothetical Figure 1. The data in Figure 1 are actually reversed. Like those data, evolution is false. The true data are plotted in Figure 2. As can be seen, the trend is an exponential increase in medically reported genetic disorders. Beyond any doubt, the trend is devolution. The data thereby demonstrate that the ravages of time produce mutations that result in devolution, the exact opposite of evolution (McKusick, 1998, Vol. 1, xiii - xviii)              

  

By 2031, it is estimated (R2 = 0.995) there will be 100,000 human genetic disorders and by 2096 1,000,000 (see Figure 3). “At least one clinical disorder has been related to 1,318 of the mapped loci (roughly 30%)” (McKusick, 1998, Vol. 1, xiii - xviii). That suggests genetic disorder saturation of each locus by 2031 and supersaturation by 2096.

These data confirm human devolution and suggest imminent permanent genetic extinction in this century.

http://www.csulb.edu/~jmastrop/data3.htm...

Answer 7

I would say that our environment may be causing alot more mutation due to chemicals and toxins. I have read that our brains are getting bigger though I think this is disputed. I watched a programmed on tv that claimed men may not be able to reproduce in 2000 years because of problems with their DNA. It is possible that we are destroying our DNA by the foods and smoking drinking and toxins in our environment. Perhaps we will look like Ninga Turtles. I am not in this field of study, I would love to hear other peoples views.

Answer 8

??? i think so

Answer 9

There is no 'further' in evolution, just a constant process of adapting to suit various environments.

In the past ten thousand years we have become more adapted to a low protein, grain based diet, the gene to digest lactose in adulthood has spread all over Europe, Europeans evolved blond hair, blue eyes, and very pale skin within the past 10,000 years. We've developed resistances to diseases like malaria, measles and smallpox, caused by our modern urban habits.

Medical science and a little genetic engineering will probably improve our intelligence, as head size is related to intelligence (critical at birth, a big head can kill mother and baby). Probably we'll start getting rid of the anti-parasite genes that cause autoimmune diseases, and adjust our bodies to accept a higher level of carbohydrates, particularly sugar, with no side effects like diabetes and obesity.

Answer 10

We are always in a state of evolution.  A lot of traits take a long time to occur.  So, we don't see them occuring.  Also, since our environment is changing, I would think that would have an affect on the human population.  I would imagine that our skin tone might change over hundreds of years just as skin color changed to suit the environments throughout the world already.

Also, at least in American, tanner people tend to be prefered by the majority of the population.  At least as an attractor to both men and women.  This plays a part in selection and plays a part in this too.

I would think that we would eventually use more of the brains we have.  In that sense they will get bigger before they do physically.  I think tooth enamel will also be of more equal thickness as we take better care of them and don't use them as much.  As a world population, we may start to look more alike since the world has become a smaller place.

I often wonder if eyesight will get worse or better over time.  With so much artificial lights there are more that wear glasses, but our bodies may find a way to compensate.  I think our muscles are getting less bulky since we use them for strenuous activity less and less.  

Who knows what else.  We may lose a toe and gain another finger from typing so much.  We might become slimmer so that being so slim isn't so unhealthy as just a way to adapt to the added heat and lack of physical activity.

This is just a few ideas.  Hope it helps.