What do you think humans would evolve into

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The discussion revolves around speculative ideas regarding the future evolution of humans, considering factors such as environmental changes, societal influences, and potential mutations. Participants explore various hypotheses about physical and cognitive changes over time, touching on themes of adaptation, societal behavior, and cultural perceptions of evolution.

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  • Conceptual clarification
  • Speculative reasoning

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants propose that humans may lose certain senses due to pollution and radiation, potentially developing new abilities like mental telepathy.
  • Others argue that while humans might evolve slightly in terms of intelligence and physical traits, significant changes are unlikely over the next several hundred thousand years.
  • A viewpoint suggests that societal xenophobia could lead to the segregation of any "mutants" that arise from evolutionary changes.
  • Some participants express skepticism about the longevity of humanity, suggesting that we may not survive long enough to witness significant evolutionary changes.
  • There are humorous references to popular culture, such as the movie "Idiocracy," which some participants relate to their views on future evolution.
  • One participant speculates that humans could evolve into machines, reflecting on the integration of technology into human life.
  • Discussions include the idea that future humans may develop traits like better livers or adaptations to a sedentary lifestyle.
  • Some participants reference an article speculating that humans could split into two distinct species based on evolutionary pressures.
  • There is a debate about the reasons behind physical traits like smaller jaws and faces, with some participants asserting that these traits are the result of evolutionary pressures while others challenge these claims as speculative.
  • Speculation about the influence of external factors, such as the discovery of a monolith, on human evolution is also mentioned.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of views, with no consensus on the specifics of future human evolution. Multiple competing hypotheses are presented, and the discussion remains largely speculative and unresolved.

Contextual Notes

Some claims rely on assumptions about societal behavior and evolutionary theory that are not universally accepted. The discussion includes speculative elements that may not be grounded in empirical evidence.

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from all the pollution like noise from load musics and the suns radiation humans would loose the ability to hear, feel and see, maybe our brain would function like our senses like having mental telepathy or something. what do you think?
 
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chrisalviola said:
from all the pollution like noise from load musics and the suns radiation
paris-hilton.jpg

(it's Paris Hilton)
 
Having just watched idiocracy last night, I'm not so sure. :smile:

Much as we are now, our intelligence will probably drift slightly higher, but not much, we may well get taller because of better diet. Our limbs may grow proportionately. But to be frank in 300,000 years time there isn't any reason to believe we will look all that different from how we are now. In a million, well fairly similar, a billion? Who knows, all depends on where and what we develop.
 
Humans are xenophobic to some degree. People who have a lot of common traits, including culture, tend to live together.

So if we have "mutants" which would be what is required by our understanding of evolution, then they would probably be forced live in the sewers (my son watches Futurama). So they would not be part of the mainstream, Paris Hilton notwithstanding.
When they wanted to become "us" they'd have to bump us off one way or another.

I think the remaining Paris Hilton's would resent any attempt at bumping off.
 
I doubt it, any mutation would be treated much the same as it is now. In the West with some sort of sympathy mostly, in other countries according to their cultures, ie abandoning at birth or freak shows, putting them in homes, sympathy and so on. That said any non physical mutation that was beneficial, would be studied much the same as it is now. Like the genes that grant relative immunity to AIDS and The Black Death. If it was a some sort of spooky mental powers, then you can be sure the military would probably have it analysed to see where it could use it.

Futurama, hehe, love that series.
 
I personally don't think that we will last long enough to find out.
 
From the initial question involving exposure to loud noises and an intolerance for solar radiation, I can only surmise that we're all going to become... Edgar Winter.
 
ShawnD said:
paris-hilton.jpg

(it's Paris Hilton)

If this is the future of our species...why should we even try anymore??!?:rolleyes:
 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
Having just watched idiocracy last night, I'm not so sure. :smile:

:smile: I LOVE that movie. I always recommend it to people. One of my all-time favorite speculative fiction movies.
 
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I don't think we'd lose those senses because we're irritated by other things from time to time. Vision and hearing are very important to us.

Hopefully we'll evolve better livers so we can drink what we want without risk of dying and perhaps our bodies will adapt more to a sedentary lifestyle that is becoming increasingly more popular/unavoidable.
 
  • #11
This may have been discussed previously somewhere on PF in the past. The article quatoes an evolutionary theorist who speculates that humans will break into two species: one would be tall, good-looking, and smart; the other, "goblin-like" and dim-witted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm

Hmmm, a little too speculative to be taken seriously, but amusing nonetheless.
 
  • #12
Schrödinger's Dog said:
Having just watched idiocracy last night, I'm not so sure. :smile:

Great movie. It's so very true. More true than many may think it is.
 
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moe darklight said:
:smile: I LOVE that movie. I always recommend it to people. One of my all-time favorite speculative fiction movies.

ManDay said:
Great movie. It's so very true. More true than many may think it is.

Yeah I just happened to catch it by chance. I'm paraphrasing here:

It's the electrolytes that are important to make the plants grow!

What are electrolytes?

They're what makes the plants grow. :confused:

Have you tried water?

What out of the toilet?

:smile:
 
  • #14
We'll probably evolve slowly into machines. Hope you paid Gates for the new virus protection.
 
  • #15
Huckleberry said:
We'll probably evolve slowly into machines. Hope you paid Gates for the new virus protection.

Microsoft Condoms 2.04b: they look good, but they have a lot of holes in them.
 
  • #16
Everytime I bring out a condom my girlfriend mentions the words micro and soft.
 
  • #17
lol.
 
  • #18
tribdog said:
Everytime I bring out a condom my girlfriend mentions the words micro and soft.

:smile: :smile:
 
  • #19
Glad you all are laughing. I'm getting a complex.
 
  • #20
:smile: maybe you just need a little more ram. and make sure not to run Quicktime.
 
  • #21
Sounds like you're trying to boot from the floppy drive instead of the hard disk.
 
  • #22
tribdog said:
I'm getting a complex.

Better than a Simplex.
 
  • #23
What will humans evolve into?

More humans.
 
  • #24
Oh dear! What an awful imagination!
 
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startrek-borg.jpg
 
  • #26
pikachu2.gif
 
  • #27
ManDay said:
Oh dear! What an awful imagination!

OK: tall, bald humans, with fewer teeth.
 
  • #28
All forms of H. will probably die out soon.
 
  • #29
lisab said:
This may have been discussed previously somewhere on PF in the past. The article quatoes an evolutionary theorist who speculates that humans will break into two species: one would be tall, good-looking, and smart; the other, "goblin-like" and dim-witted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm

Hmmm, a little too speculative to be taken seriously, but amusing nonetheless.

Huh. Amusing.

Receding chins due to not having to chew? They why amongst the great apes do -we- have chins? We have smaller jaws and therefore smaller -faces- because we don't need huge jaws, teeth, and jaw muscles to chew. Jaws were probably a random mutation that got isolated and was subject to sexual selection.

However, we developed smaller faces because resources were precious, and energy not put into building a huge jaw and face could be put to use elsewhere, such as height and brains. But in our modern technological world which we rule, resources are not very precious. Sexual selection rules.
 
  • #30
future evolution

Have you seen Wall-E?
 

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