• Question: Do you believe that humans will evolve further now tha we have eleletronics to do everything we need?

    Asked by mattsid1 to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by beddzy1323.
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      Bridget Waller answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Evolution will most certainly keep happening. It is a common mistake to think that evolution means improvement, it simply means change. So, if some people have more offspring than others, their charactistics will be more common in the next generation and so on…so I don’t think technology will chaneg that much. 🙂

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      Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Evolution depends on a changing environment- if our environment changes drastically enough then we may well develop adaptations causing us to either be better or worse suited to that new environment (I’m essentially describing natural selection). Having new technologies may help to make our lives easier though but I’m unsure as to whether they would shape the course of our own evolution. It’s almost impossible to predict!

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      Laurel Fogarty answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      It is definitely possible that technology will change the course of our evolution. For example in the past we may have needed to be stronger and faster than we need to be now, because we don’t have to lift loads of heavy things without help, maybe very strong people will be replaced by very technical people who can fix the machines!!

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