Are humans still evolving? If so, what are we likely to evolve into?

Question

Are humans still evolving? If so, what are we likely to evolve into?

Answer 1

If we were evolving in the past, then that would mean that we are certainly evolving now. You must keep in mind evolution is a process that changes species over thousands and thousands of years.

Answer 2

Evolution has no goals in mind, as it is merely change.

Answer 3

Yes humans we will never stop evolving and we will stay like this same we are for a few more 1000 years until our genetically tree changes and so them we will for some different maybe, smaller people bigger heads with bigger brains and so forth.

Answer 4

we evolve as we get older..

we evolve into a somewhat a monster look a like..

wrinkled face.. saggy body... and all. =P

Answer 5

evolution has no direction. more people over time will have the characteristics & appearance of whatever group has the most surviving & reproducing children.

if stupid people have more kids then the average individual will become stupider over generations.

if people with 6 toes have more kids then more people in each generation  will have 6 toes  than the generation before them.

there is no mystery about it, its part of long established science.

Answer 6

who knows and im hoping im not alive to see to see the outcome, maybe smaller fatter and more intelliegent than we are. but we will still not be a peaceful nation, well still want to have war with others,

Answer 7

humans may develop psychic powers in the future

Answer 8

Darwin said, 'Survival of the fittest.'

We no longer filter out the less fit therefore we do not evolve.

Who would YOU like to see exterminated?

Did Hitler have the right idea?

Gets a bit complicated doesn't it?

RoyS.

Answer 9

We are not evolving and have never evolved.

Man was created.

Answer 10

Did we evolve?  We may not have evolved.

Answer 11

Yes alot of them are, they are evolving into evil, nasty b******s!

The people I am referring to are the sick child killers, paedophiles, and such like out there

Answer 12

Timelords?

I apologise if I'm too geeky, I've just watched Doctor Who and I think everything's possible right now.

Answer 13

Starfish.

Answer 14

Evolution is a long term process. We do not evolve throughout our lives. We may claim that we do-- but individuals do not evolve. Species evolve.

Humans are still evolving. We're gaining intellect (though we are not using it very well). A lot of people have to have their widsom teeth removed because there isn't room for them in their mouth because the human brain is getting bigger.

A lot of our current health issues are due to the effects of natural selection on populations. For example-- people are fatter today than in the past in part because of less activity and overeating-- but also because the populations we descend from had to be able to survive famines and harsh winters with little food.  Our ability to gain weight rapidly is actually a defense against famine. The problem is that we seldom have famines in the US or Europe anymore and we don't walk miles each day anymore or work hard in the fields  anymore-- so we get fat.

If we become svelte and skinny over the next thousand years-- it will also be due to evolution. Natural selection plays out in the mates we choose. If less fat people have kids and more skinny people do, future populations will be thinner.  I don't think this will occur, however-- because fat people are just as worthy of finding a mate as skinny ones are.  But, what might happen, is that the incidence of gestational diabetes will increase and cause more miscarriages among heavy mothers. This is a form of natural selection and it is actually occurring in some populations.

Some scholars suggest that human beings will eventually look much the same and racial features will disappear. Some think that we will all have a medium skin tone with wavy hair, that redheads and blonds will disappear and most people will have eyes and hair that are some shade of brown.  Only time will tell.

Answer 15

I don't believe in evolution. Put that in your cap.

Answer 16

People are getting taller and maturing younger, work it out.

Answer 17

There is something that will unequivocally stop the evolution of the human species!

Its extinction!

Answer 18

we have no idea.

Could anyone have predicted that giraffes would get a neck 8 ft long?  Just that one species of ungulate?

or that elephants would get a nose with 39,500 more muscles than in the entire human body?

Answer 19

Our technology is evolving and likely within about 300 years or so man will achieve the ability to destroy himself and there are many intelligent people on earth who would not hesitate to kill us all.

  So we won't likely evolve to much more than we are today.

Answer 20

evolving into gods.

Answer 21

Heroes season 3 lol

Answer 22

I believe an inordinate number are presently in decline. Some are naturally continuing to evolve nicely.  I feel much of it has to do with attitude.

Some people thrive on stupidity (many of whom respond or ask  questions on this site.)  These people are worse than stagnant, they are a  shame to all human-kind... especially when they are demonstrative in expressing their idiousy

which seems to be the trend.

I starred your question because I thought it was not only a legitimate question, it was a rather profound question.

Bravo !

Answer 23

People that have faith in Darwin will evolve into a worm.

Jesus said: where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

Answer 24

We evolve until we're extinct. But it can take many generations, or thousands, or tens or hundreds of thousands of years or more for any radical change to occur across a species.

And, increasingly, we've evolved the ability to more or less simulate or manage our own evolution. Darwin's theory did not really anticipate that humans would find ways to replace their own body parts, change our own genetics, etc.

At least one scientist is quoted by the BBC as speculating that there may be two different kinds of humans in 100,000 years' time, as predicted by H.G. Wells.

"The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures. ..."

See the link. ;-)

Answer 25

I don't know if evolution is rightly possible... Natural selection is ment to keep sickly, short, deformed, retarded, weak animals from procreation so that their insufficient genes don't mix in with the rest of the population degrading their survivability.

But is there such a system in place for humans? and in our sociological evolution, is it right to prohibit the right of procreation of people with "lesser" genes?.

Also, will there ever be a circumstance that will cause us to acquire new genes to handle a new environment for the sake of our survival?

Mostly, I believe humans were made perfectly and the only evolution we may embark on is spiritual evolution.

Because we surely won't survive on a materialist philosophy.

Answer 26

How could we know what we are going to evolve into? it would be a new unseen being. But i think that most of the change would be neurological.