How do you envision Homo sapiens to look like/act like, ( "evolved") in the future(if we make it)?

Question

How do you envision Homo sapiens to look like/act like, ( "evolved") in the future(if we make it)?

Answer 1

The past is a good indicator that the species becomes more

aware,intelligent and enlightened as to who it is in the reality of the greater picture. (today it is the universe where yesterday it was living on a round not flat planet) We know from physics that all is energy called Consciousness Particles which inner acts and is in all matter and btn all matter. These consciousness particles are carried on light.

Thus the more consciousness / awareness / knowing one has the more Enlightened, all stemming from Light. We will

acquire more light till we have Lightbodies that glow and

are of raised frequency (higher vibrations viberate faster)

that will be more etheric or less dense. This conscious awareness of knowing will be that of realization of our Oneness with all in the universe as all (including our matter)

is Consciousness Particles of energy.

Answer 2

I do not think homo sapience will evolve naturally, future human evolution is to be artificial, it has been so since we started breeding out fetuses with known genetic problems.

my estimate is that the list of unwanted genetic traits in humans will increase very quickly in the near future with the ability to identify more genetic characteristics, and that is without the possible inclusion of desired genes into human fetuses.

what we will see is a social evolution, humans evolving to ideals of brains, beauty, health and physical abilities to match the public concept of the best in humans.

however, I'm not certain if this public evolutionary goals will include "survival of the fittest" among them.

Answer 3

It will be the end of this world.

Answer 4

There is just no predicting the course of evolution, since it depends heavily on what specific mutations occur, and how the environment changes, thus defining which mutations are beneficial to reproductive success, and which are not. We can speculate all day, but that's all it is, speculation.

Answer 5

the past is not going to help us here. It took 80,000 years for those humans who left Africa to make the first computer and leave the universe without genetic alteration. the same brain that came out of Africa took us to the moon.

The invention of the computer is the turning point in human evolution. For now we have a potent technology to alter us.

The word evolution cannot describe that alteration. Call it 'electronlution' perhaps.

What are the possibilities? New brains, new genes, new strenghts, erase weaknesses, and so on.

that's on the one hand. Those who are selected, elected or belong to the blue blood of the human race. Like the Gates' or the Beckhams' or the hollywood gang.

on the other hand, will be another breed of humans who will be earth bound, striving for an existence, and coming to terms with a new culture of survival that will make them more human, more worthy, and more fitter by far than those who have been 'electronluted'.

How will we look like. The ones who will have their brains turned will drift away from homo sapiens. Those who cannot or will not, will finally begin to turn more human in ways never envisaged.

Answer 6

Your question contains the classical mistake given to evolution that it is progressive... it is NOT progressive. Evolution is based on variance within the population allowing adaptation to fill new environmental niche. Fortunately for humans we are the most generalized mammal on the planet and as of such have found a nearly universal sucess throughout most of the environments that we encounter. That said it is difficult to imagine an environment that would be different enough and that we would habituate for long enough to allow natural selection to act upon the effected population for long enough to create any kind of significant visual change in our species. At the same time we as a species are truly defeating the few acts of natural selection that were acting upon us with advances in medicine. With this in mind the changes that might occur could be much like your thanksgiving Turkey, a creature who has been put under so much unnatural selection that it no longer is capable of mating due to humans artificially breeding them for nothing else but size. If humans were no longer present to do this service for Turkeys, they would go extinct. Through "unnatural selection" humans are doing very similiar things to themselves. Undoubtedly a woman who goes in for infertility medicines has a greater chance of having children who would require the same, children that have severe enough allergies/asthma that may have killed them in the past will now grow to a reproductive age with the assistance of asthma/allergy medicines will also produce offspring who have higher occurances of asthma/allergies. This is a bit of a concern, seeing as at the same time we are making ourselves more susceptible to asthma and allergies we are also taking actions that are converting the environment that we will have to adapt to, to containing more contaminants. If it gets serious enough those who are persevering with the assistance of medicine may be the first to become too sick to be reproductively successful such that the power of natural selection might overbear unnatural medical selection once again in this area? Some areas where medicine is making slow progress, like cancer and Aids, there will be a continued evolutionary process. Already there have been a few case studies that have shown a truckstop in Africa where the prostitutes, despite an alarming exposure rate, are not catching or dying from Aids suggesting that natural selection has already discovered a variant within one ethnic group that appears to have white blood cells which are not as susceptible to the AIDS virus, much like sickle cell trait does the same red blood cells resistance for Malaria. As this gene now becomes more prominent due to the pressure of AIDS we may also see the advance of a new genetic disorder if a person is born with two recessives, much like two recessive copies of sickle cell results in anemia instead of trait. So if people do begin to die from a worse environment that causes worse Asthma/Cancer/AIDS, undoubtedly natural selection will find many variants within our population which now far exceeds 6 billion people and will come up with the needed solutions to combat these problems so that enough people make it to a reproductive age and then go to the doctor to get their fertility drugs. If there is also enough disruption in the sociopolitical structure such that medicine is no longer readilly available, at least to the poor, then natural selection will also reclaim the realm of fertility and those who can't naturally, won't. So that is what our environment has in store for us...

But what about technology, if it is allowed to persist and becomes an enpowered agent towards our development. If on top of the fertility drugs, people take medical-engineering so far that they also have their fetus' genetically altered to bring out the "preferred" characteristics. Well it sounds great on the surface, this is actually a dangerous game of Russian roulette. First of all, if the procedure becomes too widespread we would in essence be eradicating variability within our gene pool. It is this same variance which is the mobilizer of natural selection that gives us our ability to adapt to new environments. Now lets say a bacteria or virus evolves to exploit a now homogenous niche that our scientists have now placed in EVERYONE. Not a single person will have the variance to counteract that virus/bacteria... whoops. Secondly, if genetic altering is only a thing for the rich, then we might find that if two genetically altered children were to fall from the economic status of their parents that either they could not have children at all as they have so many recessives combining inutero that the fetus is continually rejected, or if a new baby is conceived without the same genetic tinkering that the parents underwent, that the resulting child may have severe genetic defects, again by two recessives that matched up in the new baby for the fact that that recessive with a different dominant in both parents had allowed a benificial trait in their parents genetic engineering procedure. Simply put, genetic engineering may create a circumstance where it becomes a neccesary procedure for genetically engineered people to have healthy offspring and the Human race would be up the creek without a paddle if we somehow lost the ability to continue the procedure, once started.

Anyways, don't get your hopes up on some kind of progressive hierarchial structure existing within evolution that will see us become telepathic, telekenetic and whatever else Marvel comics can throw your way. As much as I appreciated comics in my youth, evolution doesn't work that way! In truth, mutation only accounts for a small fraction of evolutionary change and most of these changes are thrown out with the trash of generational decay. (ie causes it's host to die without reproducing or does not result in any significant reproductive advantage)

So what are we evolving into... What environment are we heading towards and how will our biology enpowered by natural selection and our sociopolitical and medical progress, which cheat the processes of natural selection, shape our evolution, our sucess within this new environment? This is the question. The answer is everything above.