In the future, due to environmental differences, there will be different species that are no longer humans walking around ruling the earth?
Say in Africa it’s too hot so they evolve into something with flipping wings to fan themselves. Then in Europe they evolve fur to be warm (it’s cold there and they are cavemen, after all). I mean due to the different environments humans need different things, right? Just like black people evolved nappy hair so it wouldn’t be hanging down their backs in the sun? Just like white people evolved lighter skin because they didn’t have such a hard time getting Vitamin D, right? The next logical step is to grow wings and fur?


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“there will be different species that are no longer humans walking around ruling the earth?” This assumes that humans rule the world. I would disagree. Your body right now has approximately 100 trillion human cells in/on it. However, your body, right now, also has 1,000 trillion bacteria cells on it. Bacteria dominate the biological world, including your own body.
So, in short, yes, there will be another species that dominates the world long after humans have gone extinct.
“The next logical step is to grow wings and fur?’ This assumes that evolution is a process that has design aspects in mind beforehand. That is not the case. Evolution is simply variation acted upon by selective forces. It has no “goals” in mind. So your idea that the “next logical step” is something or another is irrelevant. Evolution is a blind watchmaker.
Allow me to be the first to answer this question rationally and logically.
All species mutate subtly between generations. No offspring is exactly like either of its parents.
How much a specific trait is propagated depends on how much animals carrying that trait breed.
For instance, an animal that dies early won’t spread its traits as much. Nor will an animal that is not selected as a breeding partner by many other animals.
This is how natural selection works – animals poorly equipped for their environments are killed off early.
So, since humans for the most part no longer die off naturally, natural selection is no longer a factor, and most humans only breed with one or two other humans anyway.
So it is my logically supported theory that human evolution has stopped, bar genetic modification.
Not necessarily wings or fur. Humans may evolve though, over the course of millions and millions of years.
If you think you can predict the random process of evolution, well, you know absolutely nothing about it.
If I had to venture to guess, I’d say our next stage of evolution will be more of a mental one, but again, this a prediction by somebody on Y! Answers, a collection of the lowest forms of human life that can operate a computer.
“In the future, due to environmental differences, there will be different species that are no longer humans walking around ruling the earth?”
“Evolution” makes no such claim. It simply states the fact that mutations happen, and those that benefit survival or reproduction spread in a population, while those that don’t, don’t.
You should probably go learn about it before making up stuff you think it “says.”
Peace.
If you understood evolution you would know it’s very unlikely that we evolve very much beyond where we are now. Society is so advanced that very little demands are put on our bodies. The weak do not die off very easily, so the survival of the fittest factor is voided. Even in much poorer countries the standard of living is high enough that any evolution would be very unlikely.
No, for evolution to occur there needs to be sufficient reason, there needs to be a great struggle for survival. Europeans are not struggling to survive the winter (Europe = Scandinavia?), because they have clothes (or live in hot countries…) and Africans are not struggling to survive the heat, because they can sweat. Evolution has already occurred…
Nope..
Evolution says nothing about what we will be or that a new species will evolve from humans….
Humans may not evolve significantly at all. Other animals such as alligators, have changes very little in millions of years and others have changed significantly in the same period…
Only time will tell…
IMHO
Possibly eventually but it doesn’t happen that fast naturally, it is like a bunch of small changes that help an organism adapt, it doesn’t happen overnight. Also it is not planful it depends on whatever trait is most desirable at the particular time.
Usually, people tend to adapt to their environment. Humans still in the process of evolution; people are getting smarter. Also our technology still evolving. Even the earth is not at its last phase.
I wish you didn’t have 1700 points so I could feel reassured you’re a troll. Now I actually have to contemplate the sad possibility that you think you’ve made a valid point here.
Haha. No. Humans evolved the brains to make these things for them. I just wrote a 1000 word essay on that.
But seriously, are you a troll? Cause it would be awesome to have a troll friend here!
How could our DNA know what we would need? I can understand changes in the size, shape, or hardness of a bird’s beak, but what caused the origin of the beak?
Creatures don’t mutate to fit their environment. That is not true, nor is it what evolution states can happen with biology.
If you seriously believe that animals use wings to fan themselves, then you are an idiot.
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There is no plan or next logical step in evolution. It’s just the randomness of nature.
What you know about evolution would fit in a thimble with room to spare.
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I didn’t think you believed in white people?
Straw man alert! Idiot on the loose!
no.
Very doubtful.
We don’t need wings and fur because wee are now (at least for the most part) masters of our environment.
Hell no ,but
EVOLUTION COULD NOT DO THIS
There are several different blackpoll warblers, each
of which travels to different places. The Alaskan blackpoll
warbler is an intriguing little creature, with abilities
which baffle scientists.
He doubles his weight twice a year, without adding
any fat. In the process, his tiny body goes from 1/2 oz. to
1 oz. in weight.
In the autumn of each year he begins a 5,000-mile
journey to a far distant land, without the use of any maps
to help him. The entire trip is made non-stop by a oneounce
bird!
While still in Alaska, without knowing what the
word, “barometer” means, the little fellow waits for a
low-pressure weather system to arrive. Of course, highand
low-pressure weather had come and gone throughout
the summer, but he knows just the right time to pay
attention to this one.
When it arrives, it brings with it a wind from the
northwest, and off he goes! Flying steadily for four days
and four nights, our little friend flies 3,000 miles and
arrives at the New England coast.
But he does not stop there, but flies on and on. However,
this time, he changes his flight plan: Heading south
over the ocean, he flies higher into the sky—increasing
his altitude to nearly 16,000 feet! Most humans cannot
suddenly go to that elevation—3 miles high—without
needing to recuperate for a time before doing anything
strenuous. For 40 hours our little friend flies on and on,
without map or compass over the trackless ocean. It is
bitterly cold and there is almost no oxygen. Scientists
believe that, at night, he may look up at some of the
stars for guidance! Eventually, he arrives in Venezuela
where he winters over. Next spring, he will double his
weight again and make the return trip, following the same
route to Alaska—another 5,000-mile journey.
By the way, what do you think he eats in order to
supply him with the energy to travel 10,000 miles a year?
Bugs that he catches. It has been estimated that, in relation
to relative amounts of “fuel tanks” each has, an
automobile would need an engine which could provide
it with 720,000 miles per gallon—in order to accomplish
what this tiny bird does.
Evolution requires haphazard change and haphazard
activity, in order to produce the intricate things within
our bodies and amazing things that all of us can do.
But what about the tiny Alaskan blackpoll warbler.
Who told him to do what he does? Why does he do it?