Arman · 8 answers · 4y

Do you think in the distant future humans will evolve to a new species? If so what traits do you think they'll have that'll distinguish them from us?

ofc; no population's entire gene pool remains stagnant. even animals that are colloquially considered "living fossils" like horseshoe crabs and crocodiles have changed tremendously over a few hundred million years. modern Homo sapiens are still very new so there is a LOT of potential for change.

maybe you've heard of this but in basic evolutionary biology we teach students about the Hardy-Weinberg model of genetic equilibrium. it states that for any given allele (a form of a gene), we can expect that the frequency of that allele to not change in the absence of various evolutionary influences (random mating, no selective advantage/disadvantage of the allele, an infinitely large population size, no mutation of the gene, and no migration of genes in or out of the population). no human population is immune from all of those influences, so over time, allele frequencies will change. some more than others.

I don't really know which particular traits will be emphasized/de-emphasized. I saw this one pop science article that said future humans would have really big eyes, but I don't know about that

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