Can we control our evolution?...

What do you think about controlling our evolution?...

Evolotion is to change, and also to advance. All living beings evolve according to the changes of their environment.

A human being has sometimes to change or advance something in his live to become updated to the changes of the society.

Evolution is supposed to happen after several years, i mean centuries or millennia. But i think we can evolve everyday, because...

We evolve when we: Study and become more intelligent, work out and become stronger or faster. We evolve every time we practice something so much until we enhance an ability, sometimes a new ability.

So,,, that means that we can control our personal evolution?, what do you think?.

I think we can to some degree...yup.

^^ I agree.

And anyway, yes, we could control our evolution. If we wall moved to Antartica! We'd probably get all hairy!

Thanks for your opinios guys, and...

Have you ever see a movie which talks about people who become super after an special trainig?. These movies show us a type of evolution, normal and common human beings becoming super after a training.

This is a way how life show us in our face that we can control our evolution,, i mean becoming more than our nuture expect.

Why do you keep posting that picture when it has absolutely nothing to do with what we are talking about??

Come on hotsauce, don´t you see he´s Camus, someone who can control the power of ice. As i can see this guy is not a common person, is someone superior, i mean, he has evolved more than the others.

Now tell me, still thinking the same?... But what about your happy face, does it have something to do with all this?.

Originally posted by Cyd
What do you think about controlling our evolution?...

Evolotion is to change, and also to advance. All living beings evolve according to the changes of their environment.

A human being has sometimes to change or advance something in his live to become updated to the changes of the society.

Evolution is supposed to happen after several years, i mean centuries or millennia. But i think we can evolve everyday, because...

We evolve when we: Study and become more intelligent, work out and become stronger or faster. We evolve every time we practice something so much until we enhance an ability, sometimes a new ability.

So,,, that means that we can control our personal evolution?, what do you think?.

I don't think we as humans can control our evolution. The environment has so much to do with the course of evolution, and we are slaves to this environment.

Iresteresting Oswald, but i still think we can control our evolution, at least in a minimum rate. Im one of those who believe that we are slaves of the environment´s and universe´s decisions, but im also one of the few who believe that we can control our destiny, breaking all the nature rules if necessary...

Originally posted by Cyd
Iresteresting Oswald, but i still think we can control our evolution, at least in a minimum rate. Im one of those who believe that we are slaves of the environment´s and universe´s decisions, but im also one of the few who believe that we can control our destiny, breaking all the nature rules if necessary...

I agreed with you until that last part. I believe our evolution can be controlled to a certain point, but the environment has more control. Not really slaves, but more like employees, I would say.

One more point. Evolution appears to be based on the need to adapt. I'm not sure it is possible for us to force this need unnaturally.

Very likely by tightening the natural selection process.

By not focusing on the material things and by instead focusing on the mental/spiritual side.

Oswald, now im agreeing more with your view point about this. Is a real truth that when we need to adapt we opt to evolve.
But is also a truth that many chase something just to be better, and not exactly by the need of adaptation. Just think about the rich people that want to be richer, or those strong who want to be stronger. (Sometimes we create the need of something in our mind, but not exactly because our life need it).

The thing is that i don´t agree with the theory that we have to wait until the end of severals years to achive a simple evolution, just because the nature say so...

By all accounts since human kind has raised itself largely above the environment and so forth apparently we have reached something of an evolutionary plateau. We no longer ascribe to "survival of the fittest", the is no reason for certain genetic makes ups to die out, most people have a good chance of passing on their genes.

But I say it is possible for us to control our evolution. With the understanding we have of genotype, biology and so forth, and by way of genetic engineering, controlling genetic mutation, even by way of transgenics we have a unique, and indeed unprecedented ability to logically and consciously control the changes of ourselves, and the species as a whole. And I think this is brilliant. Evolution is a blind process, with conscious decisions. Luck plays a part. But to be able to consciously control the evolution of our species could push so many boundaries, and expand on the realm of possibility. A wonderful thing I feel. After all, we have through selective breeding evolved animal species, so it's equally possible with the increases in knowledge that the same can be achieved for humanity.

Scientists can do there experiments, but ultimately, Mother Nature calls the shots.

Perhaps, but it hardly seems like "mother nature" is still lord of human destiny. While it is still an influence, it is far less of one then 100,000 years ago, 50,000 or even 20,000. We are not nearly as susceptible to natural selection, plague, famine, climatic conditions and so forth. Science has in a large part freed us from the most basic constraints of the the environment as the cause for human evolution.

In this sense I don't think nature, natural cause and effect, calls nearly as many shots as it once did.

Thanks Imperial Samura. Your opinions will help me a lot to defent my point of view abot all this.

I can see you have a lot to say about evolution, i would like to read more about genetic because i don´t know enought about that. I have heard that we can control genetic in order to make our unborn kids smarter, to ensure a future genius. Is that true, or only a theory?...

What? Nature is chaotic and un-predictable. Man will never be able to control nature. Evolution doesnt occur from person to person, it occurs over generations of generations of generations of miniscule developments.

Originally posted by Cyd
So,,, that means that we can control our personal evolution?, what do you think?.

Of course. For example if we moved to the underground our eyes would soon adjust to it. In about a million years to to adaption our eyes would be like cats. I heard somewhere if we processed food for the next century our thumbs would go away.
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Originally posted by Freaky Zeeky
Of course. For example if we moved to the underground our eyes would soon adjust to it. In about a million years to to adaption our eyes would be like cats. I heard somewhere if we processed food for the next century our thumbs would go away.
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That wouldnt be humans controlling evolution. that would be nature conforming to our needs.

Does anybody know why we become more intelligent and useful for ourselfs?... Why we evolve our environment, i mean, our tool work, our transportation, our machines?... Why doesn´t the others animals do that?...

I don´t know why, maybe because we are smarter than them. Or perhaps because we don´t depend on nature decisions at all. 😆

We can become stronger, smarter, faster if we want. Does any other animal can do this?. 😎