Given the evolutionary traits humans have acquired so far, how do you see the human species in, say, another 100,000 years or so?

Well, using evolutionary theory one thing is for certain, if humans are still around 100,000 years from now the new traits they exhibit will definitely be a combination of the traits they have today and the the environment "acting" on random changes to those traits in the future. In other words, your question reveals that evo theory cannot make scientific predictions except the trivial "prediction" that organisms today are a result of what they were in the past as influenced by laws of nature; such a prediction is true for absolutley everything and is nothing more than a way of describing time.

So, I foresee nuke-proof people who no longer eat or sleep, who reproduce asexually, and are basically like machines that copy themseleves. Since "the purpose of life is to reproduce" obviously these new humans would be great at it.

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I don't agree with everything you said, but thanks for your thoughts! For instance, all living things eat and sleep, but with certain technological advancements, who knows? We may be able to simulate the brain's "downtime" and a circadian rhythm. I also don't think that evolutionary theory makes trivial predictions. Anyway, good thoughts!
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by teknimage on December 13th, 2006

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