what would humans evolve into next?
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I don't know, but I think it would be cool if we evolved and had super powers like the x-men.
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If snakes evolved from land dwelling creatures, then those land dwelling creatures evolved from sea creatures.  After all, humans evolved on land.
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Interesting questions. Since technology seems to be evolving alongside of us, I tend to suspect out bodies will adapt to deal with this. As most technology appears to be making our lives easier, or lasier (which will be more critical as I explain my theory), there is no doubt in my mind we will loose alot of our mobility. Since there is a large push towards working at home and automating everything, I think it is potentially possible we may loose the function of our legs and arms and the moving parts of out bodies. Having said that, it will be interesting to see how we will feed ourselves and reproduce. I suspect the theory discussed in the story, "The Time Machine", is not to far from the truth. It could be possible that we evolve into two different types of humans, similar to termites. We will have the workers; those that will grow our food and carry out the pysical tasks, The general populous which will be home bound and in control of mental actvities. Whether this happens in the next 1000 years seems unlikely since evolution takes much longer than this. But in reflection, considering the environmental change the globe is going through, other changes in the human form will need to be taken into consideration. Could it be possible that humanity will not evolve in the next 1000 years, but simply die out and a new species takes its place? This seems more likely since it has happened to many species throughtout the earths history.
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I would guess that it would be in the field of biochemistry. Perhaps cloning will be the next big thing, where we may be able to growth individual organs for transplants.
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You have to look at evolution as a series of slight beneficial changes that are passed down through generations.  The steps from single to double circ are unknown to me, but it is more than a single big jump.
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I would have to disagree with David to some extent. To evolve into a different species we would have changed enough so that different subpopulations of humans could no longer interbreed. Humans display a range of social and technological aptitudes and capacities throughout earth, the majority of which haven't even heard a dialtone let alone participated in any form of advanced travel or communications processes. However, none of these people are incabable of doing so if provided with the appropriate education needed. This suggest that there hasn't been any change in our molecular (genetic) makeup that provides us with these advanced technologies -- which is where the changes are needed to happen for biological evolution to occur. Even if you wanted to argue that social evolution has distinguished industrialized man from our primitive brethern enough to warrant a new species distinction, I would argue that we still haven't met one of the key requirements for doing so, there are no subgroups of humans on earth that are incapable of interbreeding with one another. Until that happens, no we haven't evolved from Homo sapiens sapiens to Homo sapiens futura. \n\nHowever, we will evolve into someting different! This is a certainty -- as long as our species doesn't become extint before that can happen! But don't expect that Homo sapiens will evolve into just one different species. Depending on what our environment(s) dictates, humans could evolve into numerous other species. Through the process of evolution, it is inevitable, but at the same time it is not predictable.
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I wasn't satisfied with any of the above answers, so I thought I'd write my own:\n  For evolution to take place, people would have to die because of a certain trait..... for example, if more short people died in a certain generation, then the next generation would be slightly taller because there were less short people.  That's why people won't ever have 6 fingers... because why would people be able to survive better with 6 fingers than 5?  To evolve, you need death of a certain population.  \n  Humans have been able to control their environment and have used medicines to cure many diseases.  An interesting case of a type of evolution would be people in Africa with Sickled Cell Anemia (where red blood cells change shape into a half moon instead of round).  People that have one Sickled Cell allele, and one normal cell allele will have some normal red blood cells and some sickled.  Malaria can only attack normal red blood cells and so these people with both survived through Malaria.  Therefore, there will be more sickled cell alleles in that community because the people without them died.  That is why there are more cases of sickled cell anemia in african people.
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One thing for sure, HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM PRIMATES.\n\nLife was formed out of Africa.  All humans were first Black Men and Women.  Other races are "Mutations" of the original Black Men and Women of Africa.
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monkeys did NOT evolve into humans.  neither did apes or any other primate currently living on this planet.\n\nHUMANS AND MONKEYS AND APES SHARED A COMMON ANCESTOR.\n\nIt has been 5 minutes since I last posted this answer.
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This is one of the most common misconceptions regarding the theory of evolution.  The theory of human evolution does not claim that humans came from apes.  Instead, it says that many millions of years ago, there was a species that was neither a human nor an ape.  This species split into at least two groups.  Over millions of years, one of those groups gradually changed to become what we now know as apes, and one of them gradually changed to become what we now know as humans. \n\nWhether you choose to believe the theory of evolution or some other explanation for how humans came to be is an entirely different matter.  That's something you have to decide for yourself--a bunch of strangers on the Internet can't tell you that.
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Evolution is infinite.
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If there is a selective pressure to do so, then perhaps, given enough generations, this will occur. I consider this pretty unlikely. Even if it did happen, evolution is a slow process, and it would take, at the least, tens of thousands or even millions of years.\n\nMore likely, in the next few centuries, someone will genetically engineer pets to do such.\n\nOh, and it's organisms, not organizisms.
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It is not unlikely that large creatures similar to dinosaurs of the past could evolve from present day reptiles, but mankind will have long been extinct by then.\n\nEDIT: I just remembered a television show called "The Future Is Wild." One of the episodes hypothesizes what they call a "toraton," a sauropod-like creature evolved from tortoises. This isn't some crackpot Hollywood concoction - There were some very reputable biologists behind the show, and they think it's possible.
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this is a nice question\n&we can resolve the ans by the diff of current life & the life before 500 yrs\nthe biological changes wold be\n1 lose of appendix &nicetin membrane\n2 lose of the smallest fingures of legs\n\n\ntecnology will be much more advance\nwe might not go to office &schools
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We need teachers, but I'm not too sure about the PhD part.\n\nWe are not evolving fast enough to know what we will turn into. If I had to guess, I would say future humans will be better-looking, and innately immune to today's diseases. But that's about it.
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Geniology through evolution,that will take thousands of years.So we will just have to do the best we can.
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NONE.  All things were created!  Things adapt to changing environments, but they never turn into something entirely new.