Evolution...?

[BlueGlowstick]

we will breathe fire, or something like that.

Edit: HEY 200th POST!! awesome!

 

[Klopy]

Sadly, I think our next evolutionary step won't be cool. It'll involve some way for us to survive in the pollution we are creating.

 

[DiMono]

We're evolving away from having a pinky toe. So I'm going to go with that.

 

[Rainboq]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

What about self evolution? *cough*Bionics*cough*

 

[kikon9]

Scientifically, by developing the world, humans have broken natural selection and by extension, evolution for themselves. By allowing humans to live which wouldn't have under natural circumstances. The result is a stagnating gene pool, unless there is another dark age or a "light" apocalypse any time soon(And it would have to last for a while too), humans aren't doing any evolving in any non-artificial fashion.

 

[kikon9]

Ignore this.

 

[gunheads]

Probably due to a massive population and the increasing motivation of working together, I think something like a mental link, Like a chain linking the brains together, a human network if you will, Also, as proven a longer life span and taller, more lithe frame.

Yeah, but wouldn't we be able to do that with Technology? like internet connected to our brains?

OT: Pixar's Wall-E...... I don't see why not?

We can do that now, with something like an MIU (Mind impulse unit), But as more and more humans clame to be able to feel how others a feeling in a personal way, and the more 'psychic' people are pointing to a slow evolution of peoples brains to link.

 

[Yopaz]

Well, we might lose our tail bone and appendix, whichever comes first I wouldn't know. We might get a smaller gap between our toes since we don't need our feet to climb so we wont need to grip with them anymore. We will evolve to get lazier. Our heads might change shape or size. We might also get less hairy unless there's a turn in evolution.

Man... this is boring.

I think we will grow wings with machine guns that shoots high energy laser and make us able to travel to other planets without spaceships! ...nah, I don't.

 

[LorChan]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

Evolution never stops. Ever. It just doesn't work like that.

OT; To be boring and plain, the next step is just probably getting rid of the appendix, and little things like longer digits.

 

[TeeBs]

Unless something really bad happens that one specific genes would be more useful then another set of genes, we can't evolve. Damn comfortable living!

 

[Burst6]

Biological evolution is too slow. It takes thousands of years to make minor changes, but it only takes decades for technology to do so. By the time evolution even gets its feet off the starting line we'll probably be flying forward with genetically engineered bodies and cyborg technology.

Either that or we'll all die from some natural/human caused disaster.

 

[NeedAUserName]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

Evolution never stops. Ever. It just doesn't work like that.

OT; To be boring and plain, the next step is just probably getting rid of the appendix, and little things like longer digits.

Well, evolution is only necessary in a society were survival of the fittest is paramount. In a society were this isn't the case its not truly evolution. Some people might start being born with an appendix, but its highly unlikely that all of the society will.

 

[Goro]

I think our physical evolution will be far behind our societal evolution. And in that stream, we'll evolve into a bunch of fat, lazy, poorly educated misanthropes who watch people live our lives for us on television. While we're ruled by people who actually got involved.
But I'd also be really happy if we could evolve away from beards, I'm so sick of shaving!

 

[Maze1125]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

No, technology also affects our evolution.

If we become too dependent on machines, our body deteriorates. Eventually it will reach the point until we can not live without mechanical assistance.

What would the evolutionary benefit be to being unable to live without machines?

Evolution is adaptation to your surroundings, not everything has a benefit.

No, evolution is the effect where genes that are the most effective at getting passed on end up being the ones which exist the most.

If there are no selective pressures on the genes, then the genes end up remaining in the same proportions.

What selective pressure would exist to force out all the effective human genes leaving us completely an able to live without machines?

 

[viking97]

well i'm pretty sure sexual selection is the only process that still holds any significance, so umm, ya.

i doubt any changes will happen anytime soon tho because the human pop. is so damn huge now and any person can travel to anywhere else whenever they like so genetic drift is practically non-existent.
i wouldn't be very surprised if a time traveler goes into the next thousand years and finds that the average man is exactly the same.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Well, probably the loss of our tails and resistance to current major diseases like cancer. I'm not sure when it will happen though since tools have, arguably, made evolution go wonky for us.

 

[kypsilon]

Psionics...psychic powers. Not Earth-shattering abilities mind you, but the tame stuff, energy reading, seeing energy as a visible spectrum, sensing things with acute clarity and potentially the ability to sense thoughts.

 

[LorChan]

We won't evolve anymore. We've reached a point were instead of adapting to our surroundings, our surroundings adapt to us.

Evolution never stops. Ever. It just doesn't work like that.

OT; To be boring and plain, the next step is just probably getting rid of the appendix, and little things like longer digits.

Well, evolution is only necessary in a society were survival of the fittest is paramount. In a society were this isn't the case its not truly evolution. Some people might start being born with an appendix, but its highly unlikely that all of the society will.

Even without regards to adaptation (and we would still adapt, seeing as our bodies still aren't perfect) there's still the natural trends that go through our species simply by chance. IE, if more red-heads have sex, the genes for that hair colour will be more promenant in the species, and those red-headed children will grow up and have their own red-headed children, etc. Obviously not the greatest example, as I know that red hair is a pretty recessive gene, but you get my point. We always evolve and change just by whoever happened to have sex with whoever else. This is why some traits are previlent in different places in the world. We no longer have quite so much 'adapting' to do, as that kind a evolution is brought about by humans without certain traits being killed off before they could mate, and everyone is pretty much safe from everything except illness these days.