Humans are NOT the end result of the evolutionary process.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.One day Humans may evolve into Homo Superduperious. There are writtings that these superduperious humans did some God level types of activities. A lot they were called "sons of God". The thing is with evolutionary processes is that as evolution takes it course the Homo Superduperious Genes are only passed to those in the genetic line of decendents, it's not like humanity is going to wake up one day and eveyone on earth be suddenly poofed into homo superduperious.
Word
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Apr 9, 2020
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Evolution isn't a destination its a process for survival. It isn't necessarily an on-going process. Sharks haven't changed in millions of years. Sharks evolved to be very good at swimming, eating, and making baby sharks and they don't need to change. Monkeys aren't evolving into people. A monkey is perfectly suited for its environment and has no need to change.
Humans are mostly evolving due to changes in diet, healthcare, and how we've changed our own environments. We've also eliminated a lot of medical factors that thinned out the gene pool in previous eras (we don't leave the sick and malformed to die in the woods because we thought they were devils or some nonsense).
Though if we don't destroy ourselves eventually some super virus will probably wipe us all out sooner or later unless technology advances fast enough that vaccines can be created in weeks or days instead of months or years.
Charles1971
Level 7
Apr 9, 2020
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With a growth rate that rivals rabbits over time, a short time in earth time!!!
In 1917 there were 1.5 billion inhabitants of this planet!!!
Today we are over 6.78 Billion inhabitants on this planet!!!
Of course this increase in population has nothing to do with climate change, air pollution, toxic water, ocean acidification and overt plastic pollution that is destroying the ocean environment wholesale, deforestation, and soil contamination by fracking and over use of pesticides and fertilizers!!!
These factors have nothing to do with the massive increase of humans on this planet!!!
of-the-mountain
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Apr 9, 2020
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I've always hated hearing how we "evolved" in a context suggesting it's past tense. Evolution is done now because here WE are! 
The fact is, it hasn't even slowed down. Evolution didn't happeN it is happenING!
Observer-Effect
Level 7
Apr 9, 2020
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I'm sure that the dinosaurs thought they were top shit also.
I often doubt that we are the top life form on our planet.
TomMcGiverin
Level 8
Apr 9, 2020
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Who said they were? How would anyone know?
What is the standard for evolutionary excellence anyway?
WilliamFleming
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Apr 9, 2020
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CommunityTom
Level 7
Apr 9, 2020
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Duh, it would be anthropocentric to think we are the final step in evolutionary complexity, or that we are even important in scheme of things. Except for the damage we cause to the planet. Sort of like a planetary virus, we are. Hmmm.
t1nick
Level 8
Apr 9, 2020
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I wouldn't say that.
There are greater and lesser people than you or I. The world is full of criminal trickery, but also full of heroism.
Sure there's a negative side to life, and to us as human beings, but there is also a very positive side.
Sometimes I think some people confuse negativity with wisdom, as if anyone who recognizes the good things about us are Pollyannas wearing rose-colored glasses.
I tend to think negativity, and casting things in the worst possible light, CAN be an alarm, a prod, to point out bad behavior and to goad others toward improved actions.
But just being negative because one is unhappy with oneself and his or her life, or with life in general, is like screeching ones fingernails across the surface of a blackboard...disturbing and unpleasant but only succeeding in annoying others like a misbehaving child annoys adults.
It's bitterness for it's own sake, throwing a temper tantrum because one has simply given up, an unproductive waste of time.
I think mankind has developed light years in a very short time, and IF we can make it through and tip things in the right direction, we will enter an incomparably better era.
It seems things are getting better and worse in equal measure, simultaneously, and the two 'forces,' toward dissolution and solution, will at some point meet and there will be a resolution one way or the other.
That's the way I've always thought of it, and I've also always thought an individual can affect that outcome in his or her small way not by being giddily optimistic or morosely downbeat, but by keeping a balanced perspective.
If we pass this test, I think and hope, our evolution can continue.
This can only be a good thing.
We became evolutionarily unfit 6000 years ago. Once we discovered agriculture and built permanent dwelling, we moved to the species "unfitness" category. Evolution on the macroscale works slowly.
By gathering in numbers too large for societal / cultural checks and balances to moderate aberrant (non-evolutional beneficial) behavior, we began on our march towards species extinction. When we created barriers (permanent dwellings) whereby we separated ourselves from our environment and the aspects of our evolution that detrrmined our "fitness" our progress began moving in a megative direction. We, as a species, were doomed. Human overpopulation occurred 6000 years ago. We are a cancer or a virus on the planet.
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