Do you think eventually this planet will be of one homogeneous human race?

Question

If were still around by then?

Answer 1

It could happen.

Answer 2

It could happen two ways! The first, is if our planet become globalized and peoples acquired an excellent mobility allowing them to travel all around the world 10 times faster than today! The second way of doing so, is if our race got almost wiped out, and few survivors remains for the continuity of our specie, then it could be possible that its gona make our whole world populations become homogenous! And when this will happen, we will become very vulnerable to diseases... Which in turn may accelerate our extinction!

Answer 3

The left wing liberal wish is for the absorption of the caucasian race into the more dominant world gene pool thereby causing the extinction of the caucasian.

Dominant characteristic + Recessive characteristic = Dominant characteristic.  No more caucasians.

Answer 4

I agree with Sentrynox's 2nd scenario:  If something were to almost wipeout humanity....and the only survivors were all together...  

If there were separate survivors (a group in America, and a group in Asia, forexample) that might lead us to towards being so heterogeneous that we might become different species all together (given enough time and that they could never intermarry because they are so far away)....

Besides that scenario, however, there are too many humans on earth... it would take a million generations if humans stop completely mutating.  And there is no reason for that to happen....

Answer 5

You need to watch the Discovery Channel special "The Real Eve"  It explains how, through DNA, every person on the planet can trace their heritage back to one woman 150,000 years ago.

We're all related already!

Answer 6

I hope not.... variety is cool. Besides there are genetic benefits for the species to having a diverse population. I think we will see  a lot more mixing of races in the future, but we will never be all one race. There are still too many primitive cultures that are more or less cut off from the modern world. And even though as people become more open minded about interacial relationships & even though there have always been people attracted to the exotic, there will also always be people who are attracted to the familiar & want to be with people who look like them. Hopefully it won't be too many more generations before xenophobic racists are bred out of our culture, but there will still always be people who are just plain more attracted to members of their own race. it will be nice when that day comes where such choices are made out of personal preference & not out of hate or fear

Answer 7

That seems unlikely, as variety is the spice of life, and the breeding and cross breeding will only create more variants.

Hopefully in the future, the race of a person will never be an issue of contention

Answer 8

We are one homogeneous race: Homo sapiens sapiens.  Race is an outdated concept.  People who reproduce in the same general area will eventually develop certain similarities.  Some are adaptive. like the amount of melanin in the skin, some are not, like black hair among Asian populations.

Unfortunately, too many people do not know that, and think that skin color is more than just a variation of the species.  Other animals come in different colors.  Why not humans?

Answer 9

No... If 5 million years of evolution still have not molded us into one homogenous type of creature, it is very improbable that it will be happening in the future. The world and the environment within is too large of a place for all people to adapt in the same manner, no matter how much diffusion may take place.

Answer 10

Ok, I'll take a swing at this.  Let’s start from the beginning of our evolution from Homo heidlebergensis evolving into the first Homo sapiens.  This speciation would have occurred in an isolated population, the group would likely have been small, but still large enough to have had enough variance to maintain its health by not having too many detrimental double recessive alignments in their offspring.  As of such even this first group of Homo sapiens would NOT have been homogeneous, albeit they were much less heterogeneous then the human population became at it's height at pre colonial times.  To best describe how our modern population has experienced such a magnificent gene diversity it would be best to display a couple of diagrams which show the spread and change of our mt-DNA (matrilineal) http://worldfamilies.net/migration_map_w... and Y_DNA (patrilineal) http://jewsandjoes.com/images/FTDNA-Migr... throughout the globe.  Here is another diagram that shows the settling of the Y-DNA frequencies after this initial spread: http://notavalidname.files.wordpress.com... I would have liked to have found you a diagram showing mt-DNA frequencies as well, but the internet was not forth giving, needless to say, as the spread diagrams resemble each other the resulting frequency diagrams would be similar as well.  In other words the majority of the men and the women were migrating together in groups, which makes sense given the cultural nature of Homo sapiens.  As you can see from the phenotypic expression of Y-DNA in the frequency pie-charts, the geographic demarcations closely resemble the "racial" distinctions to which I believe that you were referring to in your question, and although the Y-DNA and mt-DNA frequencies resemble the "racial" distinctions that some people like to make, in fact the vast, VAST! majority of the Human genome is identical when looked at based on geographical averages and as-of-such the term race is actually a highly flawed term and inappropriate for describing population differences within the Human race.  Our human race is one.  Besides this flaw in our application of the term race, the human species does still exhibit phenotypic diversity that results in differential morphological expression which follows these geographic distinctions that are clearly seen in the diagrams which I have put forth.  Of course these diagrams are pre colonial or else there would be a large arrow pointing from Europe and a slightly lesser one from Africa representing the genealogical flooding of Europeans and their slaves into the Americas, as well as these European arrows pointing into Australia and New Zealand.  These post colonial arrows would be the beginning of the "blending" period that we will discuss later on.  If we were to update the Y-DNA frequency chart to represent the modern inhabitants it would have predominantly red pie-charts in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.  So now to the discussion of whether the human species could either A) experience a blending of these pie-charts such that we have increased homogeneous phenotypic expression or B) experience a reduction of these pie-charts such that only one dominant near-homogeneous pie-chart remained.  

In consideration of the first point, this is already happening to a degree while looking either at Y-DNA/mt-DNA on the micro scale on an individual basis or on the macro scale on the basis of overall society's Y-DNA/mt-DNA frequencies.  By micro I am referring to immigrant populations adding to the Y-DNA and mt-DNA blending via the few incidences of inter ethnicity marriages, resulting in offspring with blended pie-charts so to speak.  Many humans do still seek their own "type" in matrimony, but still it only takes one inter-ethnic matrimonial combination to stir up the Pie chart of their offspring and their offspring's offspring, etc, unless it is bred out by reproducing with one predominant frequency set for many generations.  On the human Macro scale, you have societies who already represent extremely blended pie-charts, like those in the Middle East, south Eastern Europe and Central Russia.  On the Y-DNA frequency diagram please look at the pie-charts labeled PE, UZ, KT and GE.  All of which are examples of blended Y-DNA frequency such that the predominant Y-DNA gene combinations from all over the globe seem to have representation within these pie-charts.  So a "blending" has occurred in the Middle East and Central Eurasia being that this area represents the major migratory corridor in our evolutionary history.  Since a continuation of this blending is occurring globally via immigration and cross cultural marriages we will continually experience a general trend towards a more homogenous blending in our human genome, although, much like the original group of Adam’s and Eve's that emerged from heidlebergensis, we will never truly be homogenous no matter how blended the pie-chart were to become.  Here is an example of what a blended mt-DNA pie-chart would appear if the human species were to become near-homogeneous: http://www.familytreedna.com/mtpie.html but even if so much inter-ethnic reproduction occurred to converge on this near-homogenous case very few individuals would actually even have these exact proportions.

Answer 11

No,it will most likely be destroyed in an all consuming event which renders it uninhabitable by humanoids.

Answer 12

who knows? that might happen =)

Answer 13

not as long as humans means homo sapience species , we are very good at finding insignificant differences and making an issue out of them.

Maybe if we succeed in mutating our species into some higher and more tolerant species.

Answer 14

Not completely but anything is possible.

Answer 15

Nope. Someone is bound to s***w a chimp one of these days and medical science in all their wisdom will keep the thing alive...

Answer 16

I suppose it's possible, but not likely.  That is not to say that the races in existence today will continue on without change, but will more likely meld and morph into different ethnic groups over time.    

Typically, humans breed with other humans who are close to home and culturally familiar,  which creates distinct ethnic groups.  This is not likely to change, no matter how globalized we become.  But, again, given vast amounts of time, who knows.

Answer 17

My guess is that as long as there are various habitats on earth, there will be races with particular features adapted to live in those places.

Answer 18

If you're talking about biological race, the human population is already biologically one race.  

I don't think humans are going to drive all other species into extinction though.