How do you think the human body, specially the brain will evolve over 1000 of years, or will it stay the same?

Question

Or will we devolve at some point, please share your ideas !!!

Answer 1

we will be more peacful especially mentally

Answer 2

... and will you be here to learn the answer?

Answer 3

If our current life trend continue for a millenium then we can expect to see evolutions to modify our body like this: First we will get shorter (after growing tall we will shrink back), our thumbs will get bigger (it already begin...), our brain will just probably increase in size (but not sure, as they are still many morons on this planet), we will begin to lose our toes, and will mostly have flat feet (less runners), also eyes colors will become darker in general as a results with interacial mixing, pilosity will almost disapear, and our extremities will reduce in size (nose, ears, fingers (not the thumbs) and others...).

So that will be about it I guess. Of course there will be also some changes in our immune system as well, which will not be necesarily good, as diversity ratio (genes diversity) of our specie will dimished a lot, affecting our immunity against exotic diseases and infections. Also our telomerase may grow longer and life in general should be extended to about 150 years of age or even more. Brain transplant will also be possible, thus increasing this limit even further...

Thats about it!

Answer 4

evolution is about adaptation, not necessarily a improvement.  So a simpler brain might actually be benefical.

Answer 5

Einstein was considered to be a genius but even he stated genius is 99% perspiration.  But genius is not the solution to mankind's brain problems and evolution.  Today we are intellectually stuck on two perspectives neither of which are true visualization of reality.  Neither can lead to any evolution of our brains as evolution is tied to desire or wants and needs.  We have reached the dead end of desire under present perspectives.  These perspectives are materialism and spiritualism.  From these two perspectives we have nowhere to go evolutionarily speaking.

There is only one perspective consistent with meaningful existence and evolution.  It is: Everything is made of value (including you).  It is our natural perspective and has sustained us through all our historical ignorance.  If mankind does not move to this perspective modern culture will remain an insignificant failure of thinking skills and brain evolution.  

Many people's lives are wholly committed to our historical perspectives.  My experience is many will not change because it means almost everything about their professional lives is a fraud.  (This is the foundation of my screen name.)

For this reason a wholly new perspective will cause a wholly new society separate from historical perspectives.  It is only from a new perspective consistent with reality that brain and intellectual evolution is possible.  Before this becomes real, a critical mass of aware people needs to be reached.

Answer 6

A thousand years?  I don't see much of a change.  Not even in ten thousand.

Answer 7

Over the course of a thousand years there are likely to be some changes - mutations happen all the time (not the kind you see in sci-fi movies), as do the other agents of evolution (gene flow, genetic drift, selection) so there is always the potential for change.  The answer will most likely lie in what conditions we face in those years and how we will need to adapt to them.  If some environmental disaster occurs that creates a condition where changes in some folks brains are more beneficial, and provide them an advantage over others, then evolution may very well occur.  That is how nature works.

The monkey wrench in the process is human culture and our ability to create tools and new ways of doing things artificially.  This has not stopped the evolution of humans - but it may have affected how it happens a bit???

Answer 8

The human body has never evolved and it's not going to start evolving now.  Neither is it going to devolve, revolve, desolve, or anything else.

Answer 9

You can't devolved unless you have mass extinction that nullifies a branch of evolution.

But evolution is like a tree, with many branches, the branches will keep growing the more time goes by, they never grow backwards or shrink to my knowledge.

So yes, we are evolving, and will continue to do so over the next 1000 or 1 000 000 years if we don't do something that wipes us all out.

If you don't cut out that branch, we will continue to evolve.

Some people think we won't because of our technological development, but it seems we're headed to a more social evolution, which is no less valid than evolution for survival or the species.

As for brain, if we put importance on the brain, then yes. If thinkers are important, and it's a status symbol, then our social evolution means that they'll get more chances to breed and pass their genetics on, which should mean a brighter race.

As is if I recall properly babies are born more and more with bigger heads.

Answer 10

i would like to think that we become smarter, but i don't think that is going to be the case, sadly. i think technology advances way too fast and eventually we will just be slugs and machines will do everything for us.