Homo Sapiens: Evolutionary dead end?

[Hocus Eye.]

Joe dont take it to heart

until you join the clique you are 'not allowed' opinions or questions or even air to breathe

just join the other unworthies, ignore the intellectual illuminati and post what you want

the only people here who actually have a right to tell you what you can post, where and when are the mods, the rest just think they are

Hmm, looks like we have a potential troublemaker here. [Notes down poster number 9772517 and marks card]

 

[samk]

With a breeding population on every continent except antarctica (and if global warming takes off the rats of the chimp world will build penguin banana boats) are not going to be easy to kill, unless there was a super aids like virus

 

[kyser_soze]

 

[xes]

we have about until 2015 at the very latest. There will be no more evolution this time round.

I'll buy you all a drink in 2016 if this is wrong. (I mean it) Champers will be on me.

Otherwise, we'll be returning to spirit, as the maya have said for about 13000 years.

 

[IMR]

on a side note, I'd be incredibly offended at how crassly classist Idiocracy is if it wasn't so fucking funny

"Gatorade - it's like pouring a monster truck into your face!" How did Mike Hill get away with so much negative product placement?

Can't see human beings becoming extinct, more likely our descendants will eventually evolve into a different species, or several new species.

 

[Spion]

more likely our descendants will eventually evolve into a different species, or several new species.

Naaah, there's no impulse to evolve given that we make the tools we need to interact with the material world.

 

[IMR]

But our ancestors were likely using tools at least 2.5 million years ago. Probably a lot earlier, since chimpanzees sometimes make and use very simple tools. Earliest remains suggesting use of fire go back about 800,000 years, although some argue that we have anatomical adaptations suggesting fire has been used for cooking for quite a lot longer.

Point is, there's been plenty of evolutionary change since then. We just don't know what's round the corner.

 

[DeadJoe]

Naaah, there's no impulse to evolve given that we make the tools we need to interact with the material world.

We might need some pretty major tools to interact with a sea level rise of 6 metres, and a temperature rise of 3C. And if we can't find the tools, then we will be forced to adapt. How much evolution do you think you can get done in 100 years? My guess is not very much, even with the massed resources of a clique to back you up...

I think we'll evolve into a sentient, jelly-like form of life. Just cos I reckon life as an invertebrate could be lots of fun.

Peter Mandelson has lots of fun.

This is an utterly meaningless and pointless question.

But nonetheless, you managed to surpass it with your reply. Surely that must prove something?

 

[DotCommunist]

But our ancestors were likely using tools at least 2.5 million years ago. Probably a lot earlier, since chimpanzees sometimes make and use very simple tools. Earliest remains suggesting use of fire go back about 800,000 years, although some argue that we have anatomical adaptations suggesting fire has been used for cooking for quite a lot longer.

Point is, there's been plenty of evolutionary change since then. We just don't know what's round the corner.

Singularity. Farewell to the flesh. Rapture of the nerds

 

[Spion]

We might need some pretty major tools to interact with a sea level rise of 6 metres, and a temperature rise of 3C.

Hom Saps have already dealt with these with no evolution evident, AFAIK, at the end of the last ice age

 

[CyberRose]

Hom Saps

Racist

 

[DeadJoe]

Hom Saps have already dealt with these with no evolution evident, AFAIK, at the end of the last ice age

Our ancestors were better prepared - they were more self-reliant, and believed in society. I reckon the current lot of Sissy Sapiens might last a week at most without the technology to back them up, and all that rugged individualism going on.