Do you think human being will evolve even further?
What will that be like ? Will it be a physical evolution? or will it be on an intelligence level?
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hunkalove · 61-69, M
Evolve? Have we evolved from Thomas Jefferson to Trump? From Mozart to rapcrap? From a healthy planet to one big overpopulated garbage dump? Things change. Rarely for the better. Fifty years from now the few remaining humans on the planet will be killing each other for a drink of water.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@hunkalove I hope you are wrong, though it is hard to argue that human nature has changed. However, physically people are taller than in Jefferson's time due to an increase in average nutrition, and we live longer lives. And average knowledge is better than it was then, though as you note it often hasn't been used for good.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
@windinhishair Thomas Jefferson was 6'2". So was George Washington.
ElwoodBlues · M
@hunkalove 2000 years is too short a timescale for evolution of humans to be detectable as genetic changes (which is the only way to detect evolution). Behaviors and abilities and physiologies we've seen over the past 500 years were all baked into our genetic pool long before.
[b]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/essential-timeline-understanding-evolution-homo-sapiens-180976807/[/b]
Environment, however, such as better food supply, free time to focus on math or music, etc has allowed some of us to develop these abilities like never before.
[b]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/essential-timeline-understanding-evolution-homo-sapiens-180976807/[/b]
Environment, however, such as better food supply, free time to focus on math or music, etc has allowed some of us to develop these abilities like never before.
