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Posted: 4/30/2017 10:25:13 AM EDT
Funny how every time I think about evolution I'm looking back and never considered what lies ahead.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/humans-look-1-000-years-130000761.html Humans are still evolving, So, where will evolution take us in 1,000 years? Chances are we’ll be taller. Humans have already seen a boom in height over the last 130 years. In 1880 the average American male was 5’7’’. Today, he’s 5’10’’. We may also merge with machines that can enhance our hearing, eyesight, health, and much more. Right now, there are hearing aids that let you record sounds, generate white noise, and even come with a built-in phone. Another example is a team out of the University of Oregon which is developing bionic eyes that help the blind to see. But it’s not impossible to imagine that this technology could become a tool for seeing what we currently consider invisible, like different energies of light such as infrared and x-rays. There will eventually be a day where prosthetics are no longer just for the disabled. However, it’s not just our outside appearance that will change – our genes will also evolve on microscopic levels to aid our survival. For example, an Oxford-led study discovered a group of HIV-infected children in South Africa living healthy lives. It turns out, they have a built-in defense against HIV that prevents the virus from advancing to AIDS. |
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I was under the impression that the increase in average height was mostly a product of improved nutrition. I know many people who are taller than either of their parents.
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I seriously doubt humans will still exist in a thousand years.
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Because we are so good at predicting the future.
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Evolution requires a selective force. What force will that be in humans? We haven't changed in thousands of years, just better diet and less selective pressures.
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we are no longer evolving. there is no evolutionary pressure prior to creating offspring. most humans have equal chance of creating a child. natural variation will rule the day not survival of the fittest.
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I think the small stature in the 1880s had more to do with poor diet than evolution.
Many of the founders (george washington, Jefferson, etc) were big men, 6' or slightly taller. They would have had a high protein diet, to a high starch and carb diet a hundred years later. |
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we are no longer evolving. there is no evolutionary pressure prior to creating offspring. most humans have equal chance of creating a child. natural variation will rule the day not survival of the fittest. View Quote Unless maybe there is a plan we don't know of to turn them into soylent green eventually? |
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In 1000 years, this will be considered a special forces operator. http://www.gfi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nerd-buff.jpg And this will be the Miss America winner. http://1000uglypeople.com/wp-content/uploads/Acne-Girl-Ugly-Women-and-Girls.jpg View Quote That poor woman |
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There is no genetic advantage to being taller than we are now.
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we are no longer evolving. there is no evolutionary pressure prior to creating offspring. most humans have equal chance of creating a child. natural variation will rule the day not survival of the fittest. View Quote Idiocracy is real. |
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There is no human evolution taking place.
For evolution to work, there needs to be natural selection, which means the less-fittest have to die off You can have an IQ of 80 and have a bad heart and have 10 kids, all of whom will be fed and clothed by your neighbor's tax money. Where's the natural selection? If anything, the human race is devolving. |
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I'm pretty sure in 1,000 years we'll have transcended physical existence and will exist as conscious constructs if we continue to exist at all.
Everything points to uploading consciousness. It solves so many problems. Disease, interstellar travel at high acceleration, radiation, mortality. Current technology seems to lean that way. Prosthetic technology getting closer to neural interface. People also seem more and more willing to immerse themselves into virtual realities. It's inevitable because it will be a form of evolution we can control, which is necessary since we've done everything we can to eliminate evolution by selection. I think the last world war will be between the ethereal humans and those who embed their consciousness into constructs. And the ethereals will lose. |
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According to the research, we will also have feminine faces
The participants in the Perrett et al. study were then shown pairs of masculinised and femininised versions of the same faces and were asked to indicate which version was more attractive. For female faces, both male and female participants demonstrated very strong preferences for the femininised versions of the faces. Intriguingly, however, both male and female participants also preferred the femininised male faces to the masculinised ones. So in both male and female faces, exaggerated feminine characteristics are attractive. View Quote and also Study: Testosterone increases perceived dominance but not attractiveness in human males. |
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That bitch is fucking gross and you know it View Quote I'm not a fan of being ugly to people who got the short end of the genetic stick. I prefer to judge people by their character and actions rather than things that are out of their control. Take a guess as to where you fall on that yardstick. |
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