Will Humans eventually all be the same?

Question

By this I mean with global travel so easy, thus promoting a lot more gene flow between populations then in the past, is it possible that we could just breed out all of these ethnic differences that seem to cause so much tension and become one genetically homogeneous race?

Answer 1

I think that the people that answer No... due to race or religion must see a short destiny for humans on earth... h**l, who could predict how the human will percieve race, religion, etc. in a few thousand years from now...

Answer 2

I believe so, we are gradually being "watered" down so to speak. and one day we WILL all be the same color. Roll on that day. when we can do away with racism after all take the skin off and we ARE all the same.

Answer 3

That is assuming these 'ethnicities' all agree, and it will take 1000 yrs for a caucasian to look like a chinese person. Or are you hoping for a more blended idea where we all look alike just like twins??  Remember there will still be a thing called DNA and a serial killer now will be a serial killer then.

Answer 4

Ok, 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 experience a blending of these pie-charts such that we have increased homogeneous phenotypic expression.

In consideration of this, 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 5

Possibly, but I doubt it.  Even if everyone had the same general skin tone and facial appearance, sticklers would find some differences to seize upon and create unrest.  Its simply in their nature.

Answer 6

Some abberations will eventually go away such as white skin??

Just kidding but I made you think.

Answer 7

it be awhile and noo, cause more people marry within their race than out of their race, so it wont make a different as i can see it right now

Answer 8

With so many people oncentrated in Asia, a homogenous species is unlikely in the forseeable future.  This is also unlikely due to the fact that skin color is not determined by just one gene.

However, in places like California (where I live) and probably throughout the sourthwest, the traditional physical racial disctinctions are becoming blurred to the point that you really can't tell a person's heritage from the color of their skin, or their surname.

Of course, then people do find other things to quibble about.  "Dark" and "light"  have become very important in the Black community, and to HIspanics, distictions are drawn between people who look more "native" versus people who look more "Spanish".  That might have once been attributable to the value of "white" skin and "passing", but where I live, "minorities" are in the majority.  

I can't account for it, except to say that people are always looking to draw lines between "us" and "them".

Answer 9

with so many religions around they will not let you do !!!

Answer 10

never

Answer 11

No. Because there's always elements of any race that maintain : "there won't be any peace until they're all (insert despised race/races here) dead!