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What do you think will be the next step in human evolution?

>> No.6408254

Evolution doesn't really have clear "steps", because it's not a progressing line. It branches off every time somebody is born.

>> No.6408260

>>6408251
Well, hopefully just a little genetic nipping and tucking to add back some enzymes we've lost over millions of years and rendering ourselves immune to every virus we've ever seen.

Little things like that.

>> No.6408262

evolving to properly metabolize junk food so no one ever gets horribly fat or ill eating currently unhealthy food.

>> No.6408269

>>6408251
horizontal gene transfer. Let's see who wins the red queen's race now bacteria.

>> No.6408271

Englightened nazi robots.

>> No.6408359
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>>6408251

>> No.6408360

>>6408359

No type 1 civ?

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>>6408359
Starving kids in Africa are part of a type 2 civ?

>> No.6408510

>not catgirls
>implying

>> No.6408684

>>6408359
How would we deal with giving birth to such big heads?

>> No.6408736

>>6408684
Now that we have modern medical science, we're quickly evolving to be dependent on it.

It used to be that half of people born would be dead before they reached breeding age. We're a few generations along now of saving all the rejects.

Mostly, this means we're going downhill as genetic garbage accumulates in the genome without being filtered out, but it will also allow new traits to emerge from mutations that increase capabilities in some way but would have been fatal without advanced medical attention.

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>> No.6408746

honestly, it'll be a restructuring of the human brain in order to handle computers and technology more effectively. your eyes will be able to take in massive amounts of light easier, your forearms and fingers will become impervious to carpal tunnel, and your brain will be able to stave off the negative effects of technology addiction.

>> No.6408789

paws.

we need paws.

>> No.6408797

bigger brains

people with larger skull capacity are already more attractive viscerally. I expect we'll just keep moving in that direction/

>> No.6408798

We'll engineer our own biology long before selection pressures can make noticeable changes to humanity.

>> No.6408805

>>6408789
no we dont
we need nothing
human evolution has stopped because of our development. only minor difference in appearence may occur, but until technology fails us and we have to adapt(which basicly means millions dying and the average human looking like what's left), there will be no major changes (like overall increased strength)

>> No.6408813

>>6408805
>fails
I think you meant transforms.

>> No.6408840

Asexual reproduction.

>> No.6408848

>>6408840
No, I don't think that would be helpful.

I could imagine less female/male sexual dimorphism in the future, though.

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>>6408840
so you want to go back in evolution?

>> No.6408857

>>6408853
Yes.
We don't need CIS male patriarchy anymore.

>> No.6408860

>>6408853
Its not technically going backwards if you are walking backwards while also looking backwards.

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>>6408857
I agree. We dont need patriarchy, but patriarchy is more defined by the social superstructures of society. Dont have to change biology for that.

>>6408860
>taking things too litterary

>> No.6408877

>What do you think will be the next step in human evolution?

I think a smaller cadre of highly intelligent people will break away from the rest of the population. They'll embrace genetic engineering and a progressive biological imperative and combine it with a practical attempt to decimate the Earth's total population through a series of controlled engineered viral epidemics in a step-wise fashion to cull the majority of the world's surplus people who simply exist to convert usable resources to garbage and waste and constitute the greatest threat to the long-term survivability of the species.

>> No.6408882

>>6408789
Can we have qt fox ears first plz :o)

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>>6408877

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>>6408877
I believe the Nazis where already doing that.
Welcome to Social-darwinism

>> No.6408923

>>6408877
Hello Alex Jones.

>> No.6408930

>>6408903
>I believe the Nazis where already doing that.
No they didnt. They believed that races are divine creations and are meant to be pure and that interbreeding would always yield worse results.
Improving genes was never part of their plan.

>> No.6408949

>>6408805
Finally some sense. We have no selection pressures any more and have stopped evolving

>> No.6408953

>>6408857
Got to be bail troll

>> No.6408958

>>6408260
That theoretically can pave the way for genetic diseases. Nautral selection always wins.

>> No.6409009

>>6408251

we'll all be fat and clumsy

>> No.6409011

>>6408877
Eugenics hasn't had a very good history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#History

>> No.6409050

>>6408949
you stupid asshat, global social behavior and human history (for instance migrations) give way to a selection of alleles.

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>>6409011
Keep your head out of the past and look to the future, anon.

>> No.6409105

Permanent living in Antarctica and/or Planet migration would easily be the next step in "significant" evolution for humans.

>> No.6409143

>>6408271
That has already happened.

>> No.6409291

>>6408251
What the fuck is this image?

>> No.6409293

>>6409291
Cosplay.

>> No.6409309

>>6408798
This if we don't die out.

>> No.6409310

"artificial" evolution

complete understanding and control of gene expression

>> No.6409311

hopefully we change in a way so that people like OP understand evolution

>> No.6409319

>>6409293
its oddly captivating

>> No.6409402

>>6409293
pls tell me its a girl

>> No.6409405

>>6409402
don't think so bro.

>> No.6409426 [DELETED] 

>>6409050
For all our differences, humans are still more genetically homogenous than almost any other mammal.

>> No.6409447

>>6409050
It would take FAR longer than the length of human history and FAR more isolation from different populations than what we have had throughout that history for a significant amount of differing gene expression to branch out amongst the populations.

As a whole, humans are still more genetically homogenous than almost any other mammal. The genetic differences between Africans, Asians, and Caucasians aren't even like different breeds of dog, it's more like different fur colors on a single breed of dog.

>> No.6409480

>>6409447
Yeah. We are in too much contact with different races to ever have a extreme genetic difference between races. We still haven't found the genes that give Asians their amazing math abilities over other races, their piano prodigy gene, and the martial arts gene.

>> No.6409508

>>6409480
In modern times. Humans do have a glacial rate of speciation, but we lived in (in the extremes, say south africa to east asia to the americas to europe) for multiple thousands of years. We developed extremely distinctive aesthetics, and actually -some- nonaesthetic physical differences(no major ones though, mostly just tendencies and whos prone to what.) Its outright suprising how low the rate of divergence is that we didnt have any significant differences in the mind, at we can tell from current data.
Probably has something to do with nomads.

>> No.6409567 [DELETED] 

>>6409402
uhh...

>> No.6409574

>>6409508
>we didnt have any significant differences in the mind, at we can tell from current data.
But that's wrong.

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>>6408251

I want a fucking tail.

>> No.6409601

>>6409599
And I want to be fluffy with fur.

>> No.6409633

>>6409599
>>6409601
I want to be a loli (._. )

>> No.6409635

>>6408798
Unless we can force changes.

>> No.6409655

>>6408251
In fact is happening right now.

http://www.f-point.com/we-homo-sapiens-becoming-bigger-fatter-and-less-fertile/

>> No.6409663

>>6409655
Awesome. Evolution can destroy this shitty species.

>> No.6409670

>>6409655
Thanks Murrica.

>> No.6409690

>>6409663
End scenario: The most fertile will be the nerds with aspergers not getting laid. The beautiful females of the world have to have sex with them but they can't get themselves to do so even for the continuation of humanity.

>> No.6409697

>>6409633
>>6409599

I know those feels....

>> No.6409700

>>6409405
p-pls

>> No.6409709

>>6409655
>http://www.f-point.com/we-homo-sapiens-becoming-bigger-fatter-and-less-fertile/

>spells for with the number "four"

stopped reading right there.

What a shit study.

>> No.6409719

>>6408805
>>6408949
>Humans have stopped evolving
Get out.

>> No.6409727

>>6409633
I really do wish to be the little girl.
>>6409690
>the nerds with aspergers not getting laid
Or worse, /a/ is the most fertile, and they refuse to have sex because they're 3DPD

>> No.6409729

Genetically modified babies of course

>> No.6409783

>>6409050
I do believe that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about

>> No.6409791

>>6409719
Why do people think we're still evolving? What selection pressures are we under? In other words what's making some people able to reproduce when others can't? We're living in a genetic free for all! Everyone is having kids!

>> No.6409802

>>6409310
I like this. Makes sense to. Why shouldn't we control evolution ourselves?

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>>6409802

>> No.6409828

>>6409802
Because that would be scary and potentially totalitarian

>> No.6409855

>>6408251
the next "step" in human evolution is literally the next generation, or even the next person born if you want to be specific

>> No.6409951

>>6409727
>>the nerds with aspergers not getting laid
>Or worse, /a/ is the most fertile, and they refuse to have sex because they're 3DPD
lol

>> No.6410013

>>6409821
cowboy boot italy

>> No.6410028

Androgyny most likely

>> No.6410196

>>6409802
Because most people operate on feelings and guesses instead of reason and logic and if everyone could choose how to evolve, everyone would have giant cocks and tits and be functionally retarded for the sake of feeling good.

>> No.6410588

>>6409951
They'll be too busy on Oculus Rift and an onahole.

>> No.6410620

all these fucking people who don't understand how natural selection works.
jesus fucking christ. why are you even here if you don't comprehend something this basic?

>> No.6410627

>>6410620
I understand how natural selection works.
I naturally despise your lewdness, so my selection is to hide your post so your lewd opinion is now irrelevant.

>> No.6411179

>>6409791
We are not being selected, but we are still evolving.

>> No.6411260

>>6409011

>Eugenics hasn't had a very good history.

What does that have to do with the scenario outlined here:

>I think a smaller cadre of highly intelligent people will break away from the rest of the population. They'll embrace genetic engineering and a progressive biological imperative and combine it with a practical attempt to decimate the Earth's total population through a series of controlled engineered viral epidemics in a step-wise fashion to cull the majority of the world's surplus people who simply exist to convert usable resources to garbage and waste and constitute the greatest threat to the long-term survivability of the species.

Jack and shit, basically.

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>>6409405
anon pls

>> No.6411355

>>6408805
>>6409791
It's a bit of both worlds really, natural selection/evolution hasn't stopped for humankind, but it has gotten toned down a lot.

If you have 10 patients getting hospitalized for pneumonia and they all receive equal medical care, some of them will survive while others don't, because some have a stronger genetic foundation.

Natural selection will never stop, all it may become is negligible.

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>>6411286

Nope, not gonna happen. Pinkie toes are essential. They spread out weight, porotect the other toes from damage, etc. You think you know better than evolution eh?

Like mayb e you think we can ditch the pinkie finger? Wrong again bitch. Lose your pinkie finger and you lose 50% of your grip strength. Plus all the benefits of the pinkie toe.

>> No.6411403

Living in space: our bodies atrophy and more resources go to the brain

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>>6411358
That dog's gonna make a marvellous porn-star someday...

>> No.6411615

anyone seen idiocracy

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I dunno Op, but I'd hit that either way.

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>>6411813
aw yeh

>> No.6412038

>>6411813
She is one of the best cosplayers.

That was a real work of art.

>> No.6412045

>>6412038
> she

>> No.6412044

>>6412038
Who is she?

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>>6412045
>she?

>> No.6412057 [DELETED] 

>>6412049
just admit your gay and start fapping to shota traps.
It's okay. You're on the internet. No one will judge you.

>> No.6412055

>>6412044
http://princerits.tumblr.com/

>>6412045
>>6412049
She likes to dress up as boys, but she's unmistakeably a girl.

>> No.6412060

>>6412055
Alright that's good.
I didn't fell like turning gay tonight anyways.

>> No.6412069

>>6412060
>deer prince.gif

HA! WE MADE YOU GAY!

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>>6412069
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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>>6412057
YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM THE INTERNET

>> No.6412088

>>6412077
you think I care?
I like shota traps. And other shit too.
It's just irrelevant now...

>> No.6412095
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>humans
>evolving

we're all going to be aliens and travel the universe and go back in time and shit! yes!

>> No.6412128

>>6408877
>I think a smaller cadre of highly intelligent people will break away from the rest of the population. They'll embrace genetic engineering and a progressive biological imperative and combine it with a practical attempt to decimate the Earth's total population through a series of controlled engineered viral epidemics in a step-wise fashion to cull the majority of the world's surplus people who simply exist to convert usable resources to garbage and waste and constitute the greatest threat to the long-term survivability of the species.

Wow, did you go to highschool with me six years ago?

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>>6412055
>that tumblr

>> No.6412140

Never because every time a mutation occurs All the doctors get a huge boner and scream "WE MUST OPERATE IT OFF" even if it could have possibly benefited the progression of the human species.

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>>6412136
2 ends of the spectrum.

>> No.6412150

>>6408359
but i like my beard....

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>>6412144
Why are all the cool ones lesbians?

>> No.6412160

>>6412151

More testosterone.

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>>6412151
I wonder how hard it is to become a trap...

>> No.6412178

>>6412144
10/10 would rape

>> No.6412181

>>6412165
you may be on to something there...

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>>6412151
Yeh but i don't get it. She's a girl who pretends to be a guy who has a girlfriend who also pretends to be a guy. Wouldn't that make her attracted to guys and therefore straight? But then she also says she doesn't like guys which makes no sense.
tl;dr How do I get her to sleep with me?

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6412205

Op here.
What the fuck did you guys do to my thread?

>> No.6412214

>>6412192
>Yeh but i don't get it. She's a girl who pretends to be a guy who has a girlfriend who also pretends to be a guy.
There's a difference between finding it fun to adopt a more traditionally masculine character for the purposes of entertainment, and "pretending to be a guy".
>Wouldn't that make her attracted to guys and therefore straight?
No. It would make her attracted to feminine persons, regardless of what they happen to be wearing. She's not attracted to masculine features, just like you probably aren't into hairy legs and facial hair.
>But then she also says she doesn't like guys which makes no sense.
It makes perfect sense, you're just stuck in a framework that doesn't capture the entirety of human sexuality.
>tl;dr How do I get her to sleep with me?
You see her as something to attain and use for sexual gratification, instead of an individual who apparently already has a partner. So you don't.

>> No.6412217

>>6412205
We took your stupid premise and ignored it in favor of your much more interesting image. Now your thread is confused and kind of turned on, instead of all retarded and shit. You're welcome.

>> No.6412229

>>6412217
Makes sense.
But honestly I laughed my ass off reading all of those replies.

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>>6412055
>tfw no homo

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>>6412247
>tfw ALL OF THE HOMO

>> No.6412320

>>6409402
It is, a thread a while back on /a/ found her tumblr/deviantart

>> No.6412805

-No more backwards eyes
-No more blindspots
-More stable DNA
(there would still be mutations, just less influence from radiation and carcinogens)
-No body hair
-Stronger immune system
The list goes on and on.

>> No.6412810

>>6408359
i dont get this picture. where do you get the idea that we're going to be hairless, have big huge glowing eyes, and a weird large head?

>> No.6412813

>>6408359
So we're going to go blind but then get our eyesight back later?
Why?

>> No.6412819

Is that a grill or boy ?

>> No.6412825

>>6409599
This. I want a cute fluffy tail.
>>6412055
>she's unmistakeably a girl
What a shame.

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>>6412825

>> No.6414209

>>6412825
not if you belieeeeve

>> No.6414303

Well clearly as evident by this thread, the next step of human evolution is not so much "evolving" which takes a terrafuckton of time, by willing DNA/body editing.

So that finally someone can have whatever he damn likes. Like fashion.

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>>6414303
The future is bright.

>> No.6414422

>>6408251
Probably
>Smarter/higer IQs (more people are getting educated)
>Taller/larger (More people are able to get nutrition).

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>Pick psychology as my directive because it seems easy and might be interesting
>its not
>go to first tutorial
>aspie kid who dropped out of high school is in my class
>goes to speak
>"I believe people with autism are the next step in human evolution"
>mfw

>> No.6414484

>>6412055
>girl or guy
doesn't matter I would make love with that beautiful creature either way

>> No.6414512

>>6412214
I didn't mind this post until the last line. Fuck you, phaggot.

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>>6408877

>> No.6414526

autism

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>>6409447
>It would take FAR longer than the length of human history and FAR more isolation from different populations than what we have had throughout that history for a significant amount of differing gene expression to branch out amongst the populations.
How about a million or more years worth of evolution then?

>selection has accelerated greatly during the last 40,000 years
>the Neolithic and later periods would have experienced a rate of adaptive evolution >100 times higher than characterized most of human evolution
>The rate of adaptive evolution in human populations has indeed accelerated within the past 80,000 years. The results above demonstrate the extent of acceleration: the recent rate must be one to two orders of magnitude higher than the long-term rate to explain the genomewide pattern.
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/52/20753.long


>As a whole, humans are still more genetically homogenous than almost any other mammal.
Source. (Not that it necessarily proves your point.)


>The genetic differences between Africans, Asians, and Caucasians aren't even like different breeds of dog
Source. (Not that it necessarily proves your point.)


>it's more like different fur colors on a single breed of dog.
That's simply retarded. Troll?

>Human migrations into Eurasia created new selective pressures on features such as skin pigmentation, adaptation to cold, and diet (25, 26, 28). Over this time span, humans both inside and outside of Africa underwent rapid skeletal evolution (48, 49). ...

Pic related:
Different level of population differentiation among human genes
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/16

>> No.6414890

>>6409480
>We still haven't found the genes that give Asians their amazing math abilities over other races
Some of the genes that give Asians and Whites higher intelligence/IQ have been found actually:

>Frequencies of 10 SNPs found to be associated with educational attainment in a recent genome-wide association study were obtained from HapMap, 1000 Genomes and ALFRED. Factor analysis showed that they are strongly statistically associated at the population level, and the resulting factor score was highly related to average population IQ (r=0.90).

>Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) whose associations with intelligence seem to be robust because they have been replicated in several independent studies were chosen as representative of intelligence increasing alleles.

>The first is rs236330, located within gene FNBP1L, whose significant association with general intelligence has been reported in two separate studies (Davies et al, 2011; Benyamin et al, 2013). This gene is strongly expressed in neurons, including. hippocampal neurons and developing brains, where it regulates neuronal morphology (Davies et al, 2011).

>The second SNP is rs324650. It was included because its association with IQ has been replicated in four association studies (Comings et al, 2003; Dick et al, 2007; Gosso et al, 2006, 2007). This SNP is located in the gene CHRM2 (cholinergic receptor, muscarinic #2), which is involved in neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity and feedback regulation of acetylcholine release.

>East Asian populations (Japanese, Chinese) have the highest average frequency of beneficial alleles (39%), followed by Europeans (35.5%) and sub-Saharan Africans (16.4%).

Factor Analysis of Population Allele Frequencies as a Simple, Novel Method of Detecting Signals of Recent Polygenic Selection: The Example of Educational Attainment and IQ.
http://www.ibc7.org/article/journal_v.php?sid=312

The results seem consistent enough with observed race difference in IQ.