The Future Of Human Evolution

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whole can change, sometimes even
resulting in the formation of a new species. Humans have survived for thousands
of years and will most like survive thousands of more. Throughout the history
of the Huminoid species man has evolved from Homo Erectus to what we today call
Homo Sapiens, or what we know today as modern man.. The topic of this paper is
what does the future have in store for the evolution of Homo Sapiens. Of course,
human beings will continue to change culturally; therefore cultural evolution
will always continue; but what of physiological evolution? The cultural
evolution of man will continue as long as man can think; after all it's the
ideas we think up that makes up our cultures. In a thousand years man might
complete a 180 degree turn culturally (not to mention physiologically) and as
seen by our fellow inhabitants of earth we would in essence be different beings.
One can say that this new culture has chosen its ideas based on Natural
Selection. One can see this in ...

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pool in the
disappearance of certain human tribes within parts of Africa and South America..
These tribes unfortunately take exclusive alleles with them. What about Natural
Selection in present human culture. Some peoples are growing faster than others,
for example-Chinese faster than any other in the present world, thus the large
Chinese population. Therefore some group traits ae more common than others. Yet
the loss of these alleles and the gain of these mutations offer marginal
contributions to our species and thus have little or no effect.
The first step in understand evolution in present terms is to mention
genetic engineering (including genetic drift). The first step to ...

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