Are Humans Still Evolving.
This debate is only for people who believe in evolution.
Also feel free to theorize what traits future "humans" might have.
Yes, we are.
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No, we're beyond that now.
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Of course we are still evolving. But now it is more in our own control than before, since we can create the environment we live in and change it whenever we want. This debate is only for people who believe in evolution. I wouldn't use the word believe. Evolution is a fact, it is not something you believe in as it is with religions. "Believing" essentially means "trusting" something with no absolute evidence, and evolution does have absolute evidence. Therefore, saying that one believes in evolution is false. Side: Yes, we are.
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The 21st century has brought many things with it, and with those things the human body and MIND must adapt. I think that when the word 'evolution' is used people automatically think that we are growing tails or wings or something (and maybe we are, but we cannot notice it yet) but it is also our minds that evolve to take on new challenges and to compete against the Artificial Intelligences that will one day be more intelligent than us - especially if we do not evolve. The reason humans became the dominant species on this planet is because we outsmarted the other species. If that is no longer the case then we will be forced to evolve. Side: Yes, we are.
We are still moving on the path. A few hundred years ago people would only live a few years, now we can live over 100 years old, and the age limit keeps getting higher every year or so. Also, by my defination of evoulation is also getting smarter. We are getting better tech and getting smarter every year, just ten yeras ago the ipods, cell phones, computers, were just getting started. look at them now. Side: Yes, we are.
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we are evolving so incredibly slowly that it really doesn't matter. It doesn't mean anything and it never will for a REALLY long time. Its not that we are to far evolved though. Its that evolution is a way to adapt. What do we have to adapt to, we run the show. Side: No, we're beyond that now.
Humans still compete with other humans. There is always the chance that someone wants to try tweaking the human genome in a laboratory to create an army of super soldiers to take over the world, but I'm not sure of the feasibility of this scenario. A sane scientist may have less sinister reasons to alter the human genome, for instance curing cancer. Hmm taking over the world and curing cancer these are really generic examples of good and bad science. Any way my point is there are still reasons to alter the human genome. I'm sure there are reasons to keep it the way it, is but I can't think of any right now. Side: Yes, we are.
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