How do you think the human species will evolve?

Question

On all levels: physical, intellectual, spiritual, social. Thank you!

Answer 1

Very recently there was an article in yahoo about this topic.

It said that by the year three thousand homo sapiens will evolve

into two different species. One will be physically much stronger, bigger, and healthier than the other. They will be more intelligent also.

The other group will be smaller in size, and not so strong as the

other. They wont have almost no intelligence and would be like

slaves for the better human race. It said that the better human race would grow to be almost 8ft tall.

In another i read that a possible reason for all this. People in third world countries would deteriorate because of the lack of sufficient amount of nutrients and proteins, and would start to change slowly.

Answer 2

I like this website.  It shows five possibilities.  Click on the options next to the red arrows to open pages with more information about each possibility of future human evolution:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7348103/

I have my own projection, though.  With genetic and stem cell breakthroughs, advances in neurophysiology, advances in technology and coming to a place in our exploration of the world around us finally to be able to create energy soon on the photonic level rather than just harvest it , I see a fascinating future for humanity.  It's just a fiction, though, but fun to consider.

Every single sensory input that we perceive, everything we've seen, heard, smelled, tasted and touch, is stored in our chemical electrical memories.  Most of those memories we cannot access consciously.  But, they are there.  We habituate and selectively cull out all but the most essential elements of reality with which to consciously conduct our lives and with which to derive meaning from existence.  We are on the verge of being able to access ALL of our memories.  

AND, here's the kicker, we are also going to be able to access all of our ancestor's memories!  Our memories are stored somehow (public research doesn't have a clue about how, yet), in our replication material, DNA.  We are actually going to be able to tap into those memories as far back as the beginning within ourselves.  We aren't really too far away from that ability.  The necessary launching science and technology are in place in other fields.  It's an explosion of such discoveries right now.  And, in that explosion, tapping into our complete blood-line back to the primordial pond of memories is going to happen fairly soon.

With our peekings at our genome and with stem cell applications, humans are going to be able to alter themselves without limitations.  At first, we will strive to apply that knowledge to end disease and repair injuries.  With a little tagging "tea", we're going to be able to grow a little boy's leg back he lost in an accident.  Blindness and paralysis will soon be ended.  We're already doing stuff along this line by growing a third saphenous vein down a patient's leg to harvest for use in some coronary artery bypass grafts.  ALL things that trouble us physically, even hunger and vulnerability to dangerous radiation, will soon be a completely moot issue.

AND, we're going to conquer death and aging.  Actually, we are going to reverse aging and live our normal lifespans, probably around 9700 years.  At the ends of our DNA strands are little caps called "telemeres" which wear down as we live and when they are worn away, the cascade of dying begins.  BUT, what if we were to learn that a specific virus had set up residence at the base of our telemeres and "locked" it down, prevented it from growing as it NORMALLY should, for 9700 years?  What if we learned that a stupid virus was harvesting us in that way?  Why, we would massacre that beastie and embark on our species true lifespan and the adventure inherent in social systems that would evolve for us as individuals over that longer span of time.

Now, couple all of that from above and imagine, in our species' tumble toward greater awareness of the world around us and greater illumination of Meaning, we discover that humans are not the more advanced form of life on this planet.  Back to that beastie at the base of our telemeres.  Think about what a virus does for a living.  It lands on a chicken or a pig or a human, like an influenza virus, sticks a little probe into the cell of its host, mingles ITS replication material AND collected memories with the host's replication material, extracts a sample of the host's replication material and collected memories and departs.  That's what viruses do.  They collect memories, and they have chains of such memories from all of us.  Take the heme plant.  How exactly did a plant get an animal gene for heme?  A virus "infected" the plant with its entire collected chain of replication material that it had picked up elsewhere.  If you were to jot down the dates from legitimate "reincarnation" memories, you will find that those dates cluster around major world influenzas.  "Reincarnation" memories are vestige memories of other people that the virus has visited that get "infected" into our own collected memories by viruses.

With that discovery, humans will hungrily explore each other's memories and even the memories of all other lifeforms, plant and animal, in fact, acting like viruses.  We then live for the pleasure and increased awareness that rises from such collected memories and experiences.  Soon, we will chose not to remain in our form, beginning at first with simple stem cell alterations on our size to conserve energy needs, but, ultimately to drift away into global consciousness as viral entities, even to drift off the planet and travel elsewhere, as viruses do.

I believe our search for Meaning, all of our learning and struggles to rise above the basal rhythms of Nature, our wars, nuclear weapons, passions, Industrial Revolution, all of it, even our filthy mistakes is about getting our consciousness to a place where it can become one with everything in some way, such as the scenario I just described, before we can truly comprehend existence.

Answer 3

Humans will not evolve.... We've been the same for the last 5000 years, the only things that we have done is adapted.  For instance our jaw used to be broader and stronger.. Well not anymore back in the good ol' days they didn't eat Pop Tarts.  Our jaws are not as broad anymore - just an example.  Anyway, a lot of things like this we have adapted to.  We aren't going to evolve.  I'm a creationist and all of you are going to hate me, but I believe this because of substantial evidence for my faith as a Christian.  Its a matter of religion not science so don't post anything to rebut these statements...

Hoooray!

Answer 4

With the advances in genetic engineering, humans will write their own ticket on evolution.  Those with the means to pay for genetic enhancements for themselves & their offspring will live for 250 yrs or more, & have strong atheletic bodies. When the genes for genius level intelligence are discovered, then the elite will all have superior intelligence... thus ensuring an oligarchy where they control the serfs tasked with supporting them.

Religion will be directed to support the ruling class as it always has been & the afterlife will become even more inportant to the lower classes.

Answer 5

I believe that given time we will cease to be Human as we know it. People will refuse to die if they can have spare part surgery and afford to pay for it, so it will only be for the rich. The NHS will be no more and the poorest of us will cease to exist. All this will create another bottleneck and the survivors of the human race will begin all over again. In a couple of million years Anthropologists will be trying to fit our bones together and decide if we were a near relative to their species.

Answer 6

i think some day our brains will be capable of telepathy intellectually. Physically we'll become stronger and probably taller. Spiritually i have no idea lot's of people have different views on spirituality. Socially i think racism will be pretty much gone in a few decades because the races will be so mixed up and all.