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Topic	Do you think humans will ever evolve?
EvenSpoonier 11/17/19 10:23:46 PM #16:	Splitting into different species? It's not impossible, but I don't think it'll happen unless and until we colonize other worlds. In a very short amount of time (relative to the timescales evolution works on, anyway), we've mastered two skills that seriously disrupt natural selection as we know it: moving people between any two points on the globe, and adapting our habitat to suit our needs rather than the other way around. Earth just doesn't offer the necessary isolation, variation, or challenge for us to drift apart that much anymore. Space, on the other hand, and the other worlds therein? That might do the trick. --- "Playing a game for its graphics is like watching pornography for the story." - Kadiroth <cite>EvenSpoonier posted [p:930296050] in Do you thi... [t:78171290]...</cite> <quote>Splitting into different species? It's not impossible, but I don't think it'll happen unless and until we colonize other worlds. In a very short amount of time (relative to the timescales evolution works on, anyway), we've mastered two skills that seriously disrupt natural selection as we know it: moving people between any two points on the globe, and adapting our habitat to suit our needs rather than the other way around. Earth just doesn't offer the necessary isolation, variation, or challenge for us to drift apart that much anymore. Space, on the other hand, and the other worlds therein? That might do the trick. --- "Playing a game for its graphics is like watching pornography for the story." - Kadiroth</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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