How do you believe the human body will EVOLVE anatomically over the next few hundred thousand years?

Question

according to evolution, the human body looked radically different a few hundred thousand years ago.

how do you think it will look in another few hundred thousand years?

Answer 1

Longer legs, larger hearts to fuel them; no toes. Necks that can swivel 180 degrees to the rear. Eyes that can zoom focus on things miles away. And the ability to read minds over a distance, (like the "san e wireless" idea in Australian Aboriginal culture).

It's going to be a glorious time for the human body.  

Answer 2

apendix may go.  small toe may go.  The white race may be homogenized into a darker hispanic like race.  we will create another tendon or two in our hands.  finger nails will get smaller.  average height will be higher and our bodies will become more immune to sickness

Answer 3

Evolution is a random process of genetic mutation. Some genetic mutations are beneficial and some are not. The beneficial ones are those which assist the animal to survive better in its changing environment. There is then a tendency for mating to take place between animals which will pass on these "helpful" genes. Human sexual selection works in a very different manner. It's a conscious rather than unconscious proceeding. Therefore, I doubt that there will be any significant physical change. Our "evolution" will be more in the nature of a planned evolution. We will expand the capacity and use of our brains through direct link-ups between computers and neural networks, probably through chip implantation.

Answer 4

I think our "wisdom" teeth and tonsils will disappear....

Answer 5

Well, we're definitely losing that pinky (finger and toe); keeps getting shorter.  I also think that cancer is nature's way of trying to deal with the irritants that cause cancer; meaning that it's our bodies' way of trying to evolve to win out over these irritants.  Smoking causes lung cancer, too much sun causes melanoma, etc.  The body's merely reacting, I think.  Someday, someone will survive major cancer without any medical help.  Then we'll start to see more and more people born with "cancerous" bodies.

Answer 6

We will have wings and eat furry squirrel biscuits.

Answer 7

Well I think in next few hundred years people will be much taller since every generation has been getting taller.  I think humans will be much more intellegent.  

Answer 8

In a few hundred thousand years there will not be a human alive.  The human race will self-destruct long before that.  It must be nice to live in a fairy tale world like yours.  Wake up and look what man is doing to himself and his world.

Answer 9

well over the last 100,000 years or so, we have evolved to having bigger brains and smaller muscles and overall bone structure as we have adapted to technology.  

This trend will not necessarily continue because we have something in our society called sports, which means that we admire athletes and will not necessarily become smaller and weaker because we need that strength for athletics (as opposed to hunting).  

We might, however, continue to have larger and larger brains because technology is still improving and the people who understand technology will be better off than people who do not.  This is not necessarily true though.

However, one last thing to consider is that in human society, unlike any other species in the world, the rich and more educated people reproduce LESS (because they understand the responsibility of having a child), and poor and less educated people reproduce more.  This has implications on evolution because this means that people who are better off will contribute less to the population than people who are not so well off.

Basically, I think for the most part, we will stay the same.  Sadly.

Answer 10

i think our pinky toes will be gone becasue we dont need them anyway and maybe our galbladder nd our appendix will be gone

Answer 11

The best prediction would be a larger head. Humans are noted for their large brain to body ratio.

Right now the female pelvis has reached it's structural limit to accommodate birth. Any larger and walking would be difficult. However, there has been a great increase in the number of cesarean delivers. Babies with larger heads are being born.

If this is a natural selection trait. Babies with larger heads will reproduce and pass the trait along. It's likely artificial wombs will be developed and large headed humans will be the norm.

Answer 12

According to evolution, it will only change if there are selection pressures that push it in some direction.  I would hope that more attractive versions of our current appearance would become the norm.  We are astonishingly well adapted and some humans are very attractive.  I doubt we will change much in our overall appearance or form.