Are Humans done evolving?

Sorry for the late post, but I disagree, we are still phisically evolving. How do you explain the fact that we are getting taller and loosing more hair. What about blue eyes, I haven't been heard anything that explains that yet. Could it be that they are more beneficial in some way yet to be determined? Our smell and hearing are getting worse too. What are the reasons behind this?

 

I've evolved into something you dont want your family around... lol
The corrupter of TV dreams and small thinking...

Come near me and your children will start thinking...
So.. stay away.. Your kids are smarter than you.

Occam

 

BEHOLD! THE EVOLUTION OF MAN!

 

we must learn to evolve spiritually. some of you have, but its so amazing.

 

Human have an evolved intelligence that has given us the ability to build tens of thousands of thermonuclear bombs with the delivery systems that will give use the ability to use them against each other. I can see human evolution coming to an abrupt end, at some point.

 

IMO i think that we will first have to overcome the population issue. In the future global warming will get too out of control with the CO2 emmisions that mother nature will take her place and whipe out most of the population. Only the fittest (and luckiest) will survive. Evolution might take millions of years to occur physically but our minds are evolving quicker. It will most likely become Survival of the not only fittest but also the richest. There will always be the smart people who pass on there knowledge to others willing to learn and the rich people will be there to buy and sponsor the research for further education and inventions. The poor will probally be the ones to die in the future as it is that way right now. The weak will survive due to all the new reasearch. that is just my thoughts about evolution and survival of the fittest....

oh and pardon my messy thoughts and bad grmmer im a little stoned at the moment hehe ; ]

 

I'm still not done evolving. I'm working on a nice set of wings.

 

what is the percentage of our brains that we actually use again? I remember it not being a very high number.

 

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no species will ever stop changing... however, humans will no longer evolve by the laws of nature; we've pretty much broken out of those. Humans will evolve by other standards, but what those are, we can only learn with time. unfortunately for right now though, it seems, the stupid redneck sheep are by far the biggest breeders.

 

Try it this way; technology is part of humankind, a component of our being, whether it is inanimate or not. Due to the development of technology, the survivors will no longer have to be the genetically well-equiped, but rather,will be those who have the best access to technology which prolongs their lives and allows them to reproduce and maintain their offspring.

Evolution occurs much more rapidly than we would like to think, and especially now; just not on a noticable scale. Let's take computers for example. With the growth in popularity of social networking like myspace, and applications like AIM, people are becoming better typists who can use computers much better than before, but are less able to cope with everyday social association, the more time they spend on computers (ask yourself, can kids who play WoW like it's their job hold a good conversation? At least as well as a soccer player?). This is a transition; if the population as a whole keeps up their current practice, a social evolution will take place, in which vocal conversation will be exchanged for computer conversation, which is much more energy efficient to the average body (especially instead of biking to your friend's house to talk. when the phone was invented, we lost a lot of mobility, people didn't have to walk around so much. This, combined with the car, and later the internet, has limited our physical health quite a bit.) Eventually at such a pace, vocal conversation will be lost to us in the long run. This loss of the regular components of the human body will occur much more rapidly some day in the future. Do you know about those games in development in which you play "telepathically"? It reads the electrical signals from your brain and translates certain areas of activity into commands. Eventually, the idea of a mind-powered remote will likely come about. I don't see it too far-fetched an idea to have a computer in which the mouse is mind-controlled. We will become a blob, our bodies useless once all physical needs are taken care of. All technological development holds the purpose of outsourcing the jobs of our bodies, or doing what our bodies cannot. Pencils and paper help you outsource memories and ideas that your mind can't hold for an extended period, as well as art which you imagine. The computer, the evolution of pen and paper, as well as a number of things, does so much better (quicker, too). It isn't far off to believe that the next step is the removal of our minds from our bodies; do you think the mind belongs in a mortal shell? If you do, you won't make it to this stage; don't think that you should die just because everyone before you had to.

Our technology does the evolution for us, now; we devolve in order to fuel it.

True this is, different skills and mentalities use different areas of the brain, which every normal person posesses. However, you don't use all the same parts of the brain as Van Gough when you paint, because that area of his brain was more fined tuned to that activity than yours is (not to say you're a bad artist, just an example). No one person has the same electrical activity in all areas of the brain, and no two people really have the same exact brain design (layout, sure, but nothing exact). You were probably saying this anyway

 

the impatience of humans with anything that takes longer then their own lifetime leads to some very off the wall assumptions. evolution isn't a thing that begins or ends as long as whatever is evolving exists. but it is a proccess that takes place much to slowly to witness within the life span of any individual member of its own speicies. the closest we can therefor come to witnessing it in action, is in the context of species much shorter lived then ourselves. there is however ample evidence that it occurs, has and continues to be occuring, in those that are not, our own included.

er well, that is physical, biological evolution of species of living organsims. analagous progressions of chainge do of course take place in other contexts. such as the ongoing development of tecnologies. driven and directed by unconscious forces of demand, preference, and occasionally inspiration.

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Themnax..

Exactly

Occam

 

no

 

If evolution was real I would have the sickest guitar hands by now.
But alas, I don't. =(

 

evolution is not about some ruling over the others. evolution does dictate supremacy but that in the context of survival. since those who are better adapted to the environmental conditions in a crisis are the ones who will survive they are also the ones likely to rule over the others. but evolution does not say who should rule over whom.

 

Humans are devolving. Sorry. Better luck next time. Right??

See you in Hell!

 

they have noticed that we are evolving out of our big talebones

 

I doubt we're completely done evolving.

 

If you really stop to think about it, humans as a species are really young, so I think there's a lot left for our race to accomplish...at least biologically or in the ways of evolving.