It all seems fairly straight forward so I'm going to have a crack at predicting how evolution will change us in the years to come. Sorry Darwin, I'm going to make your work look so very easy.
First thing's first; we evolve based around our lifestyles. Changes happen to make living that way easier. For example we are now on average more intelligent than our ancestors, we're mainly taller and have bigger feet. Have you ever tried going up a Victorian staircase? It's hard, don't! We have less hair on our bodies (most of us) than our cavemen predecessors and we have less of an urge to hunt mammoths. It's all true, I looked it up on Wikipedia.
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So with that in mind how will our current lifestyles alter the way we look in the next few hundred years? Hmm, HMMM.
Well what do we do a lot of now? We don't hunt or fight over women all that much, so I doubt we'll evolve to be stronger. But we do spend a lot of time on Angry Birds. Might we evolve to have more flexible thumbs in order to help us get that perfect angle? Maybe our thumbs will end up being longer so we can reach the other side of a Samsung Galaxy Note screen without having to use those ridiculous pens? We'll probably just have bigger hands in general, so big in fact that the iPad Mini ends up looking like an iPod Nano. Exciting times await!
We'll all end up with more fleshed out backsides to make sitting down in an office more bearable and our caffeine needs will be so high that we'll regard it as a substance equal in importance to oxygen. Everyone will be Type 2 Diabetic and my fellow Type 1's will mock you even though we'll be a dying breed as all the money that was being spent on research is now being pumped into making caffeine filter through the air.
Our brains will be bigger but able to carry a lot less information as we continue to grow used to being able to find whatever we need in seconds on the Internet. Google will be regarded as some sort of deity. Atheists will deny the validity of Google and other religions will hold Yahoo and Bing in similar standings, but the Googleites will know deep down that they're in the right. Bing? I Google it just to see if it still exists.
Other things will likely happen too, perhaps our heads will be able to pick up Wi-Fi and our stomachs will be able to handle hotter curries. We have a lot to look forward to, fellow humans.
For now I need to quickly evolve into someone who is doing something useful with his time, although I bet that's what Darwin thought too. Look at him now!