Are all humans evolved to the same degree?

Question

I mean, is it even possible, with all the different races out there that they are at EXACTLY the same point on the evolutionary line? What are the factors? Naturally, even if it were true, no scientist would ever claim this for fear of being called a....you guessed it, a racist. Evolution is a crazy ***** and I wonder if there are subtle differences in us that puts on race bhind or in front of the other.

Answer 1

Agreeing with the other answers, you can't say one group is "more highly evolved" or "ahead" of another group.  We often think of ourselves (likely) as being more highly evolved than cockroaches...but roaches are incredibly well adapted to their environment and have been around much longer than us.  Roaches are just as well evolved, if not more so, than us.  Each organism is extremely well evolved for their specific habitat, and that's really the only distinction you can make in terms of what is more evolved than what.  If one organism is more adapted to their environment than another, you might be able to say the first organism is more highly evolved.

Humans though are all the same essentially  There's an enormous amount of gene flow within the human population today.  Even extremely isolated indigenous tribes in the far reaches of the world mate with the outside world, and it only takes 1 mating every generation or two to keep up a high level of gene flow between that tribe and the rest of the human population.  To say that separate parts of humanity are evolved differently than others would imply there is a separation between these different parts, and thus no gene flow between them.  This just isnt true.  For example, say we assume that population X has some gene X that enables them to live in the desert better than other people.  This differentiates population X from the rest of the human population.  But as soon as there is even one interbreeding between population X and the rest of the human population, this different is destroyed because gene flow has occurred and now, gene X is in the rest of the human population as well.  There really is very little difference between even the most dissimilar looking human beings.

Answer 2

Humans haven't actually evolved in a long time, technically, apes and monkeys are more evolved than us, because they've changed a lot more in the time we've been around than we have.

No race is more evolved than another, we're all on the same level of genetic evolution.

Intelligence levels though...that varies from person to person...

Answer 3

I think that PC has put a real hindrance on our ability to evolve as humans, which is a bit of a catch 22 considering how when they came up with it it was supposed to be a way for us to prove we were evolving as humans. I believe the best way for us to evolve higher is to stop thinking with the front of our brains and let our instincts take over. That's what kicked off the whole process of evolution in the first place.

Answer 4

All humans are not equally evolved. I am more highly evolved then my brother according to our dentist. I have no wisdom teeth and he had four.

Answer 5

Well it's impossible for it to be totally equal.  But I don't think race has too much to do with the actual level of evolution, perhaps the direction, though.  I have seen some guys who resemble cave men (physically and mentally) much more-so than others.  So I'd say there's a fair bit of range.

Answer 6

Are all humans evolved to the same degree?

YES since all humans, black and white and yellow,  are all HOMO SAPIEN!

Answer 7

Of course we are all equal. To prove this have s*x with every one on earth and see if you have children. If so, then you are exactly the same.

Answer 8

When you compare human variety to that of other animals, you find something interesting. Your average two humans are very, very closely related compared to your average two, say, chimps. Our whole population has very low variance.

If evolution proceeded along some line, then we could perhaps mark who was where on that line. But the fact is that evolution is not a predictable process, and there is not really an end goal, or a next step. Saying one person is more evolved than other doesn't mean anything. Even if evolution was on a line, like I said, we're all pretty closely related to each other. Not in a familial sense, necessarily. It's just that our genetic variability is quite low as a species. You can sit around and make common sense conclusions from your own observations, or you can talk to a real, breathing, geneticist, like I did.

Answer 9

From the point of view that we have DNA which is within .1% of everyone else, yes, otherwise, NO.  ;-)

Answer 10

Evolution is not progressive or does it have a goal in mind.  "A race behind, or in front of the other", is just incoherent. We are one species, with population variation. Whatever comes of this, " evolution is cleverer than you ".

Answer 11

oh, would you just SHUT  THE  h**l  UP?

Thank you.