One billion A.D. A question for evolution fans.

[Darwinian]

I was surfing through the science forums and I came across an interesting question.

The question was, what do you think the human race will be like a billion years from now (Assuming our species has survived that long) what do you think evolutionary effect will have on the human race in the deep future?

Now, a billion years is a mind boggling amount of time and to my mind, humanity would have diversified to such an extent that it would be unrecognisable to the average Joe or Joanne of today.

Also, we would no doubt have spread throughout a huge portion of the Galaxy and evolution would have taken the original species, i.e. us, down so many different routes that we would effectively be alien to each other.

[LukeMC]

That's amazing.
We'd split off into so many different species. And on planet 89475 there will be people saying "Those scientists are trying to convince you... that you evolved from human beings!!"

[Darwinian]

This is very true

In fact, I suspect that this has and is happening across the Universe. It only takes life to evolve on one planet in any particular galaxy, as it has on ours, for the entire galaxy to eventually become rich with millions of different species.

Given enough time..

[Kyuuketsuki]

what do you think the human race will be like a billion years from now (Assuming our species has survived that long) what do you think evolutionary effect will have on the human race in the deep future?

In a billion years I think the human race will be robots.

Kyu

[Baird]

what do you think the human race will be like a billion years from now (Assuming our species has survived that long) what do you think evolutionary effect will have on the human race in the deep future?

Dumber, fatter, and uglier than we already are...
Have you seen some of the people that roam the streets recently?!
They're fucking retarded! Especially in this country!
Yesterday, I asked a man on a website what his thoughts on atheism were...
He replied:
I'm fine with atheism, though I'm not buying one of their damn vacuüm cleaners!
My mouth literally fell open!

I hope we become extinct in a few hundred years...

[Rob]

That's an ace reply. Replace Atheism with Jesus and you have what I'm going to say to the next jehovah's witness that comes to my door

[Tiberius]

Seeing as Evolution has no goal for species, I can't possibly answer the question. It relies on too many unknown factors. We have no idea what kinds of adaptations we'll have to go through in the next billion years.

[Edwardo Piet]

I of course don't know the answer either. I've found this: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433724,00.html
But I have no idea if its reliable or not
We can't really know can we? Even if evidence was found the evidence could change when we change, couldn't it?

[Tiberius]

Steve Jones has been criticized by a number of evolutionary biologists. Just because younger fathers are less likely to pass on mutations does not mean they do not pass on any at all.

[Edwardo Piet]

Yes
Does it just slow the evolution then? Because less mutations? Its of course a gross exaggeration to say there are ZERO mutations:p Were they being totally literal about it?
There was a site I've seen before that I can't find now. It suggested that basically due to overuse of medicine in the future the human immune system will be considerably weaker. And we will have evolved to adapt to this. Our spines will be different and stuff. Some weird theory.
I have no idea how reliable this is but it's just an idea since I of course don't know the answer to the question