Not in a strictly natural way. The best way for a human to adapt it to get better stuff so there's no evolutionary need to evolve. As our understanding of genetics improves we might be able to artificially evolve, but that won't happen for a long time.
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Look up Appendix and Immune Systems, some studies recently have found that it might be useful, and also useful in other aspects. Quite interesting. I'd be happy to keep it and hope to get through life without having to get rid of it due to appendicitus and so on.
Depends how often Republicans are voted into office.
Evolution, at the very least, is simply a species adapting to its environment. Humans can pretty much control their immediate natural environment, so there's not much pressure coming from that as there used to be. Our man-made environment is another story. If we develop, say, an increasingly short-sighted and frenetic society, certainly there will be an evolutionary advantage to those already genetically skewed in that direction.
Basically, change is a constant. I would think evolution, as a subset of change, would be likewise.
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by definition all species are constantly evolving by having offspring which live in an environment.
Evolution is not synonymous with progress or improvement, so even the lack of selection pressure to make us harder, better, faster, stronger does not mean we are not evolving.
Okay, that raises an interesting question. Given the world we exist in, how would it influence our future evolution? Higher dexterity for typing? Changes in language processing? Decline of an immune system?
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well, rather than thinking about traits that we use, we need to think of what it is that allows people to procreate.
I think there is a tendency toward less variation in the physical features of women, but I'm unaware of statistics that show there is a huge population of people who want to have kids, yet are unable. Lots of fat and ugly people have babies. I guess sterile people...
I think it is going to be a form of sexual selection rather than natural selection, with various social groups becoming so insular that cross-group inter breeding wont occur as often. The problem is, the nature of human technology seems to push against this.
So, like, maybe selection against people who can't drive and thus get into car accidents and die before reproduction, but I honestly wouldn't know.
So those "Greys" people are always talking about must be humans, humans from the future traveling back in time to secure DNA from archaic man . Ah ha, it's so simple.
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