• queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    I don’t think there will be one. We’re extremely close to taking control of our genes in a very direct way, why would we continue leaving it up to nature?

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Also, there’s just really no longer any natural selection in humans. Basically all of us last through breeding years now. So other than selecting out acute health issues and normal mate selection, there’s not much going on.

  • retrieval4558@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Modern medicine and technology has effectively circumvented the majority of evolutionary pressures we once had.

  • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Depends on what you mean by evolution.

    Humans have always adapted to their environments and some properties become inherited though genetics or culture. Enough difference in genes could mean alien anthropologists in far future separating future humans aside from current day homo sapiens, but that’s expected.

    Evolution doesn’t imply “getting better or superior” like popular culture. If a disaster struck earth and we were forced to live underground, our eyes and sense of vision will eventually cease to be as relevant as other senses. People in our days might call it ‘devolution’, but is it? It simply means they adapted to their environment.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Pretty sure AI/robots will just replace us eventually and be our ““offspring””.

    If not, and we don’t return to monkey either, you’re going to see rapid speciation thanks to genetic engineering.

    People will probably use different bodies like driving different cars, like Altered Carbon, but more like Man After Man.

    You have a body for swimming, a body for hiking, a body for doing the naughty, etc… “you” will either be a brain in a jar or just a chip or just a virtual “soul”, slipping in and out of bodies. And some people will wear bodies like fashion, with new trends every year etc…

    Perhaps you’ll see people inhabiting these bodies full time, living “normal” human lives, with their entire families being the same. Like a mermaid village or something. And you’ll see many such communities living simple or even primitive lives, but with completely alien bodies.

    And I’m pretty sure 99.999% of humanity will be completely unrecognizable within just a few hundred years. But I’m guessing some regular old homo sapiens will always stick around, unless some fanatic intentionally wipes them out. But that’s kind if hard if you can hide the information necessary to reconstruct all of humanity on a USB stick.