Thread: Human evolution future?

Will dependency on medication and advances in saving lifes lower the need for our immune system, eliminate natural selection, pre long infancy n life expectancy and increase the rate of cancer in our species as we evolve. If so we are slowly become extinct right

Yes us humans no longer live in isolated groups fending for survival we can even live in space just outside the Earths atmosphere natural selection has ended people with deformities and defects live now and they will pass on their traits meaning almost all traits are just surviving even the bad ones sadly

No!! am a christian and dont belive in all this rubbish how can u?.Anyways to answer your question nothing will happen.

responses so far seem to stress the 'bugs' evolving but remember humans like bugs are living things too - as bugs evolve we will also evolve e.g. there are female prostitutes in Africa who are immune to aids. So All living things evolve not just the nasty 'bugs'.
Also perhaps we are nearing the end of 'physical' evolution in terms of the body and in millions of years it will be the mind that has evolved leaving the poor susceptible to disease body behind. For a good read on this aspect read
THE PHENOMENON OF MAN by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.

all the illness and disease will get immune from medicines due to natural selection, eventually we'll get to the limits of medical science and we wont be able to stop the illnesses, then were fucked.

firstly you can't catch cancer and it is nothing to do with the immune system secondly no we will not slowly become extinct because think about it people with no immune system will all ways have small decease like colds things like that so if so no 1 of the opposite sex will go for them because they are always ill so they can never pass on there jeans also micro organisms will evolve with medicine

You can never eliminate Natural Selection. Think about it this way. More medicine means longer lives for people which means an increased population which means more opinions. More opinions mean more conflicts thus War will decide the ultimate fate on who is the strongest disregarding genes but those with the strongest armament.

This question can be tied into SO many schools of thought and categories, especially Economics. More people means a depletion on Needs resources (Needs being necessities: Food, Shelter and Health) thus meaning that it will be those in power who will get the first bids. Those on the lower hierarchy will have to take whatever they given. However, some of those on the lower hierarchy may not like being where they are, hence Adolf Hitler and his mission on making Germany a economic might.

Edit: Nordland I watched a Richard Dawkings documentary on African sex workers being immune to AIDs. I agree with what you say.

Natural selection is very good at explaining a mechanism of evolution, but everyone seems to forget is that humans are really no longer bound by it. Unlike the plant and animal world we can adapt far more quickly and to much farther extremes than other species with our intellect and technology. Human "evolution" from this point on will be driven by decisions we make and the technology we advance (for good or bad), and not so much by things that happen beyond our control. That is not to say there won't be unintended effects along the way, but none will likely do us in.

I often think the same thing. But desease will evolve along with us too, thus making antidotes and cures useless.