• Question: will humans evolve into something different in the future?

    Asked by beth12 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      We are evolving all the time, unless our environment is such that our current form is simply the best for it then we will continue to evolve.

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      It depends on how much time we have on the planet. It’s been thousands of years to get us where we are now, but our DNA may not have changed a lot in that time.

    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I don’t think we’ll evolve into something different (it’s taken us millions of years for us to get to where we are today!) But I certainly think ourselves as humans will evolve and adapt as our environment changes.

    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      A lot of evolution is to do with selection of advantageous features – some science fiction writers think we are going to become more and more blobby because we can control our environment and don’t need to run away from wolves any more etc…

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