So I've been looking in-to things, and wondering...
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Thread Topic: So I've been looking in-to things, and wondering...
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Just post the things you think (or at-least wish) humans will acquire or get rid of through natural or artificial selection (plz state how).
Like I'm pretty sure that in a few dozen thousand years we're going to have 2x larger brains and generally be 3 feet taller through natural selection.
Although I'm really skeptic about it, humans like to f--- with their genomes. -
My offspring will take over the world.
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f--- no yours won't, mine will.
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Maybe ours could be the same ;)
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-three feet taller through natural selection
What, short people can't get girls?
Anyway, I personally believe that medical science, and humanity as a whole has progressed to the point where evolution is pretty much impossible. Not only because any real mutations can be easily fixed, and any mutation that we can't fix is still going to be released into a world where survival of the fittest is no longer applicable. -
@Geek: I was about to say the same. ;;^)
@IHLAOY: Good to have you back. I'm not too sure that the impossibility of Evolution is possible, since Evolution happens on what-ever scale constantly and with-out it, the Universe would either be the exact same it is right now for the rest of eternity or non-existent.
What I'm saying is that Evolution is ingrained in all things, so how could humans not be able to mutate? Larger brains would be the first and fore-most mutation, since as we become more and more advanced, more complex and more complex content needs to be learned, both in quantities and... Complexity, so eventually our beautiful brains will no longer be efficient, causing nature to make humans be born with more and more neurons per generation.
And short people can get girls. Just look at The Little Couple. -
Nice to be back. Well, not really. Anyway.
All our brain work is already done by computers, this will be compounded further when we develop AI's that can independently and work several thousand times faster than any human. Any decently complex algorithm would never be solved by brain. Sure, I'll admit that certain methods and scientific connections are inevitably going to get more complex, but the brunt work will always be taken over by computers. And again, your premise relies on the fact that people with more neurons are going to out breed people with less neurons, which simply won't happen in the modern day, considering the simple size of humanity and the lack of stupid people leaving the gene pool. (Although, I will admit that it is potentially possible given a large amount of time, but so is anything if you wait long enough.) -
Imagine if the average height was raised by 6 feet. That would be creepy-sexy O_O
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It would be hard to get in doors!
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Why 3 feet taller though? A good thing to do is think about what we know people thousands before us were like and they weren't massively differnet in height were they?
I don't think they looked much different from now to be honest so we might not look much different even in thousands of years. -
Oh I just noticed you said a few dozen thousand...we might not even exist that long.
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Even if we survive, I think we might be short, about 4 to 5 feet. There's no reason to be tall. We'll have a larger brain and our eyes would be weak. May be some mutated gene might bring on some cool additional feature, like lifting objects with thought power.
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That scares me, IHLAOY. That scares me.
But what about Neanderthals? -
I don't know how long ago Neanderthals were.
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What ABOUT Neanderthals? How do Neanderthals relate to anything I've said about there being no more survival of the fittest?
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