Will we ever evolve to Homo sapiens futuria as it has been predicted?
Abhyudaya
2005-12-12 02:32:25 UTC
Is nature that predictable
Four answers:
J.R.
2005-12-12 06:42:58 UTC
I would have to disagree with David to some extent. To evolve into a different species we would have changed enough so that different subpopulations of humans could no longer interbreed. Humans display a range of social and technological aptitudes and capacities throughout earth, the majority of which haven't even heard a dialtone let alone participated in any form of advanced travel or communications processes. However, none of these people are incabable of doing so if provided with the appropriate education needed. This suggest that there hasn't been any change in our molecular (genetic) makeup that provides us with these advanced technologies -- which is where the changes are needed to happen for biological evolution to occur. Even if you wanted to argue that social evolution has distinguished industrialized man from our primitive brethern enough to warrant a new species distinction, I would argue that we still haven't met one of the key requirements for doing so, there are no subgroups of humans on earth that are incapable of interbreeding with one another. Until that happens, no we haven't evolved from Homo sapiens sapiens to Homo sapiens futura.
However, we will evolve into someting different! This is a certainty -- as long as our species doesn't become extint before that can happen! But don't expect that Homo sapiens will evolve into just one different species. Depending on what our environment(s) dictates, humans could evolve into numerous other species. Through the process of evolution, it is inevitable, but at the same time it is not predictable.
David Weekly
2005-12-12 11:45:41 UTC
Well, some would say we're already there. I don't think anybody's expecting that next year babies will suddenly be born with gray skin or anything. But our changes in the past few hundred years in physiology, communication, travel, and behavior have been dramatic enough that you could begin to consider us evolved into a higher form of homo sapiens.
Take this here, for example -- the whole concept of asking questions to a random forum of people distributed around the world and getting answers back in seconds or minutes would have seemed like absolutely god-like powers to folks hundreds of years ago. In some ways, we could be consdered to be "self evolving" at this point, no longer under nature's arbitrary push forwards from random lucky strikes of genomic mistranscriptions.
kamlesh sahu
2005-12-12 15:48:14 UTC
yes but after so many long year. and it will be continue forever.
one example i want to give you before the discovery of fire we are taking uncooked food now we get adapted for only cooked food and vermiform appendix is a vestigial organ.
mail me kbiotech@gmail.com
K.J.
2005-12-12 10:36:19 UTC
lmao never, the furthest homo anything is homo sexuals
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