Do you think the human being will keep it's present form?
Or will the human species, far down the line, appear as a drastically changed sort of being? Or: did we stop at thumbs?
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Chaoshead · 26-30, M
I think will stay basically the same.
@Chaoshead Why is that? Technology replacing human need for body-change? Have we reached out evolutionary peak as an organism? What makes you think we will stay the same?
Chaoshead · 26-30, M
@LomeMarsupial Evolution has occurred primarily because the organism with the most adaptable traits have survived and spread their genes.
However, now with medicine we are keeping almost everyone alive (which is a good thing). This messes with evolution - it's no longer a straightforward process that is constantly progressing.
Sure things that are ubiquitously extraneous - such as our mouths getting smaller(which is currently occurring) due to slicing our meat and not requiring big food sizes - will continue to dissolve. But the major impacts of medicine have made it difficult for large evolutionary changes to occur - even over a grandiose period of time.
However, now with medicine we are keeping almost everyone alive (which is a good thing). This messes with evolution - it's no longer a straightforward process that is constantly progressing.
Sure things that are ubiquitously extraneous - such as our mouths getting smaller(which is currently occurring) due to slicing our meat and not requiring big food sizes - will continue to dissolve. But the major impacts of medicine have made it difficult for large evolutionary changes to occur - even over a grandiose period of time.