If Evolution is so clever.
Then what will Humans be like in a million years?
How will we adapt to an ever changing enviroment.
Basically what I'm asking is, will we get wheels on our feet, or something like that.
Evolution
We will be extinct, rhubarb will take over.
It's already happening.
Oh that's what that was.
I thought I'd just embarrassed some celery.
Triffids are basically man eating celery.
It's one of those superfoods.
You actually lose more calories being devoured by them than you do running away.
Evolution is blind and has no foresight. It only has what already exists to work with. The hammer and anvil bones in your inner ear that vibrate come from when we were reptiles, reptiles have two lower jaw bones, one of which they rest on the ground to pick vibrations. This is the one that we have in our ear as primates.
Whales still have hind leg bones buried deep within their blubber.
Yeah well It wasn't my intention to make this thread interesting & intelligent, but I do think it's a fascinating subject.
Often it seems that animals develop according to their enviroment, and It seems that there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
Anyway..
I reckon we'll develop USB ports somewhere on our bodies.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ February 18 2010, 10:10 PM GMTYeah well It wasn't my intention to make this thread interesting & intelligent, but I do think it's a fascinating subject.
Sorry, this is one of my passions. I'll refrain.
Often it seems that animals develop according to their enviroment, and It seems that there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
It's natural selection acting on random genetic mutation. sorry , sorry.
Anyway..
I reckon we'll develop USB ports somewhere on our bodies.
For that to happen there would have to be...
Quote: scratchyr @ February 18 2010, 10:23 PM GMTSorry, this is one of my passions. I'll refrain.
No not at all.
I think it's interesting.
But I'm not entirely sure that we (not me, I mean clever people) know everything there is to know about it.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ February 18 2010, 10:00 PM GMTOh that's what that was.
I thought I'd just embarrassed some celery.
But I'm not entirely sure that we (not me, I mean clever people) know everything there is to know about it.
Yeah true but that's half the fun. Discovery. Scientists tend to be the first ones to admit they don't know everything. Despite often being portrayed that they think they do. Evolution is more or less pretty well understood. The fine details are not in place, is it gradual or fits and starts?
The final theory though, come on the Weinburg and Witten!
As long as we remain civilised and technologised, human evolution has very probably stopped.
Read "Evolution" by Stephen Baxter if you want a totally headf**king speculation about what could happen if we de-civilise.
When will we know that we have evolved into some other organism?
We won't.
We will have tails and shit.