Evolution is largely dictated by enviorment. Until we need to read minds, burn meteors with our eyes, or leap great ditances. Eveoution will only serve to benefit practical needs of nature.
Personally, i dont think humanity will live long enough to witness the next step in our evolution. The closest we are now is the recessing of the pinky toe. The next large step in human evolution will be the dissapearance of the little toe and wisdom teeth, not superpowers.
Although, there may one day be a type of synthetic evolution with the advent of cybernetics, which im sure is on the horizon for the next hundred years
Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Evolution is largely dictated by enviorment. Until we need to read minds, burn meteors with our eyes, or leap great ditances. Eveoution will only serve to benefit practical needs of nature.Personally, i dont think humanity will live long enough to witness the next step in our evolution. The closest we are now is the recessing of the pinky toe. The next large step in human evolution will be the dissapearance of the little toe and wisdom teeth, not superpowers.
Although, there may one day be a type of synthetic evolution with the advent of cybernetics, which im sure is on the horizon for the next hundred years
I think that humans will be around for a long time to come, especially if we stop killing ourselves off. But, I think that everyone would be better off if they exercised regularly & studied.
Originally posted by Robtard
We're actually getting weaker as a species... years ago, when natural selection would have killed off people born with asthma, heart problems, or any genetic "weakness" before they could reach maturity and reproduce; passing along those genes, now through the miracles of technology and medicine, they do live and pass on those genes.We're going to continue to become weaker and weaker, that is until gene manipulation comes to fruition; were we're able to enhance people at the embryonic stage and/or remove genetic defeats.
Throw 1,000 average people of today 20,000 years into the past, giving them only what our ancestors had, I doubt less than 1 out of 20 would survive.
This is something I tell people all the time, more or less.
A lot of people around me at work would not be alive without modern medicine.
I would be deaf without modern medicine.
We are actually weakening our species because the weak live and reproduce when they shouldn't even be alive...by nature’s standards.
However, gene manipulation is right on the horizon and this will negate all of modern medicine does/can do. As soon as the human genome is known inside and out, hyper-perfect humans will be created. There will also be "underground" inferior humans whose parents could not afford gene manipulation and it will not longer be "minorities" that are discriminated against, but it will be the genetic inferiors. Also, cybernetic enhancements will also be a major player and this will also contribute to the future human social system and its discrimination element. Hyper-perfect humans is a phrase/term I came up with to describe humans that have been manipulated beyond the necessary means to perfectly survive in their natural environment. (Yes, I am a nerd and I think about things that serve no purpose currently.)
Originally posted by Ultimate Hulk43
I think that humans will be around for a long time to come, especially if we stop killing ourselves off. But, I think that everyone would be better off if they exercised regularly & studied.
I agree, i think humans will be around for a quite a long time to come, just not the millions of years it takes to evolove physically.
regular mental and physcial exercise would be a welcomed evolution though 😂
Originally posted by Ultimate Hulk43A science fiction author speculated in one of his novels that, of all the humans who will ever be alive--this to include the 200,000 years of homo sapien's existence-- 99% have yet to be born.
I think that humans will be around for a long time to come, especially if we stop killing ourselves off.
I think all that stuff we read about in scifi/comics (genetic enginnering; nanotech; etc, for things like 1000-ton lifting strength or supersonic body speed) may prove to be much more difficult than we imagine. We'll likely be able to do it one day, but that day has to be centuries away.
Hyper-perfect humans...humans that have been manipulated beyond the necessary means to perfectly survive in their natural environment.Nicely put.