In 10,000 years, humans will probably be pretty similar, because 10,000 years is nothing in evolutionary terms. Perhaps we'll be taller, and more "attractive", as women have more of a choice about who they shack up with now, as opposed to just being sold to the first pimply, pot bellied dwarf to walk in the door of their father's hut, but I can't see any major changes. In the distant future, it's anyone's guess.
Exactly *****1987, we've been pretty much the same for 200,000 years. Why would we suddenly change, when there are far fewer external sources of 'pressure' on us?
does this mean monkeys will evolve into people in thousands of years? would these monkey people go to war with us?.
Probably not. We're already filling the niche for super-intellingent primate, it's those sneaky dolphins we're going to have to watch out for.
I could only find the edited American version of this, which is a shame because Sir Dave of Attenborough is THE man. These ****ers are scary. In a few thousand years they'll be lording it over us, the sly ****s.
Somewhere between dickhead and monkey fetishist the OP ---> please log in to view this image No, this is just silly. DNA mapping has further corroborated the evolutionary continuum (as DHCanary pointed out, all Science is theory - yet the Theory of Evolution is now established as validated). The decoding of various genomes, including our own, has opened the door for new scientific research -in particular the brain. We are currently in the process of combining extremely powerful computers with very powerful AI algorithms and living tissue. Now then, can you imagine a living, free-moving half biocreature, half silicon circuitry being let loose on the planet, with an intellect many thousands of times greater than (this creature's biggest threat to life: humans at large) the human brain? This is the next stage of evolution combined with the ability to 'bend' physical cosmological megadistances, making interstellar space travel possible. The technologies currently being developed make the 1st of these predictions a near certainty, a bit like Einstein's theories near the beginning of the last century -in this case, leading to the inevitable development of nuclear bombs. Both represent a serious threat to the existence of the human species - we may very well not be around in 10,000 or even a good deal less, so Mick, DIE ****ER!!!
Agree with the receding number of digits - esp toes. Just look at how everyone's small toe is receding into the fourth toe. In 10,000 years time we will have 4 toes on each foot. Ignore what that pompous ring-piece Jacky said above. If he's a Geordie, then he's probably well behind the evolutionary route as is
I don't agree with the 4 toe thing, because there is no evolutionary benefit to losing a toe. Then energy saved in not producing it is minimal, and the gains in terms of balance and stability far outweigh it (If anyone could chop their 5th toe off and try walking as a demonstration, please do record it). I don't think you can say the 5th toe is receding into the 4th, it's just naturally shorter because it provides the best balance at the length it is. Over many thousands of years, the length of the fifth toe has been optimised, and it is now effectively an evolutionary dead end. Also, in evolutionary terms, 10,000 years isn't that long, a human from 8000BC would still be perfectly recognisable today.
It's like the bones of a Reptiles jaw. They didn't disappear during their evolution into Mammals, they all 'migrated' into the ear. Bones don't disappear 'like that'. It's possible that we'll lose a toe at some point, but certainly not in 10,000 years and the bones will almost definitely be there for millions.
