Atheists, how long in your estimation do you think ?

Question

it will take for a new distinct specie of humans to emerge. In other words how long will take for two or more incompatible species of humans to evolve.

Also where do you see the evolution of humans going?

Answer 1

There are too many variables to determine such a change.

Rev. Neil

Answer 2

Without reproductive isolation, it's going to have to be a chronospecies.

Answer 3

If a group of humans went to another planet, and there was no intermarriage with people from earth from then on, after many generations they could end up as a different species. How fast it would happen would depend on how different the other planet's environment was from the earth's environment.

Answer 4

as someone point out, evolution is too slow.

we will evolved as what we want, not what nature's want.

Answer 5

(shrugs shoulders) who knows.

Answer 6

Not enough information to tell. But really, for that to happen, there has to be a seperation of two sets of human beings into two different environments.

Like, if some of us eventually leave Earth and colonise a new planet.....those people will evolve on a different path to those still on Earth, and maybe after a few hundred thousand years there'll be some distinct differences

Answer 7

Seriously , I think we will engineer our Dna and all ourselves , very soon. Whit Nanotechnology , DNA , Chromosone , ect we will create a superior human being

Evolution = If we still go on like this for a while and ignore our past as usual , we will all die , we are already dead in a way unless there is a spiritual revoluion

Answer 8

With our intelligence, technology, and modern medicine, there really isn't much reason for us to evolve.  We have found ways to live in our environment pretty well.  So...I don't know what the future holds for human evolution.  

Answer 9

well since mutations are by chance, no i can not.

evolution is slow and made a lot slower by the fact we change the environment to adapt to us and we dont need to adapt to the environment. Also we have a large population and gene pool, so it will be some time, if we dont die out first

Answer 10

The next evolution has already started, and it's not a physical one.  It's mental and emotional.

Look up Indigo and Crystal Children.

Answer 11

I think you're confusing atheists with incredibly well-read scientists who possess the quality of omniscience/foresight.

Answer 12

It's pretty much impossible to say where human evolution is going.  We live in a largely artificial environment which has, to some extend, bypassed natural selection.

It's very very difficult to say what sort of changes will occur in the environment, and what sort of changes will occur in the human phenotype in response to environmental change.

I personally don't think much is going to happen in human biological evolution until we start colonising other planets.  then it will get very very interesting indeed.

Answer 13

I would thing that human evolution would be hold back for a good while (unless if there is a dramatic change in our lives) due to our advances in science and setting our own ecosystem for longer survival.  The main reason for evolving is to survive in a ecosystem that's ever changing (not rapidly, but over time). However, I would say that the human race will change.  We would be more intelligent, probably less hairy over time, and will be considered one race rather than multiple races due to our mixing of cultures and interracial bonding becoming more of a norm.

Answer 14

I suspect that humans will not tend to diverge.  With world travel as it is, there are unlikely to be subpopulations that are reproductively isolated.  The selective pressures on humans that will result in changes that would define a new species are unlikely to occur until the world population has outgrown technology to produce more food.

Answer 15

I'm no science whiz, but I think the best chance of that happening is the existence of vegetarians. But that would take an unbroken end to eating meat for hundreds of generations within families. For possibly thousands of years. Eventually they'd probably lose the point to the canine teeth. Otherwise, we're all exposed to all the same stuff, there is no other real reason that we'd divide into two groups.

Answer 16

theres no evolution....we are born thru parents....wrong board

Answer 17

Speciation depends on groups having no contact with each other. The world is not like that anymore, so it's impossible. Unless, I suppose, we were to colonizer another planet. And then in some way lose contact. Still, it'd take perhaps hundreds of thousands of years.

Answer 18

in a few years time, we will be able to download our personalities, basically a copy of who we are.

this means that we have a permanent back up, put this copy into a virtual/cyber world, that's where the next step will be, self evolution, and virtual conscious immortality.

Answer 19

Um, I don't think humans are going to split into separate species unless we start colonizing other planets. Geneflow is just to broad for an isolated population to break off.  

Answer 20

We are evolving already!  People used to be shorter and now they are taller.  I think all the technology will increase mental abilities such as  memory..however,  I think it could have a negative impact on how our species will evolve physically like vision issues and neck and back strain. Evolution never stops it is a constant force.