DIALOGUE AND SYNTHESIS: HUMAN EVOLUTION AND FUTURE SPECIES PROSPECTS

The evolution of humans is discussed from the origin and the future of how the human species will evolve. In this paper, we will look at some historical figures and philosophers who described the evolution of humans to the current species and their theories or views on evolution. We will also discuss the past and the future of human evolution using dialogue and synthesis.

Anaximander of Miletus: humans must have descended from other creatures whose young ones could survive without help. Human ancestry must be fish since their young are hatched and begin living without their parents’ help.

Charles Darwin: the human being evolved from a phenomenon called natural selection or survival of the fit. Organisms reproduce rapidly than how they can survive in the environment. Those with the required characteristics or that are better physically equipped to survive to grow to maturity and reproduce (Winsor 2015)[1].

Zoologists: humans evolved from ape-like animals. We are the species of Hominies, Homo sapiens, from Africa.

Biologists and anthropologists: humans and the extinct hominies and apes are somehow related, and their evolution relates to human development.

Scientists: human beings do change with regards to changes in the gene composition or changes in the DNA within the body of these humans.

Charles Darwin: the increase in the population of species in an ecosystem leads to competition, and those species that will be fit or selected by nature will not die.

Biologists and anthropologists: human beings evolved or changed their physical and mental structure as the world kept changing. Human beings evolved from species that lived in forests, an ape-like species, but they learned new skills that enabled them to develop to the current human species. Changes in the environment led to the evolution of these species to the existing human species.

Charles Darwin: theories defining how evolution took place apart from natural selection included gradualism which stated that changes in time differentiated the anatomic traits of species.

Biologist and Charles Darwin: human beings evolved from common ancestry and branched into different lineages. The fossils of apes in other parts of Africa and Europe showed the lineage of human beings (Winsor 2015)[2].

Charles Darwin: evolution process produces new species by splitting and transforming the older ones. These new species may differ from the older ones in their traits and genes.

Charles and biologists: the development of the human skull from the fossils obtained from the ape and early humans showed the evolution of human beings.

Charles Darwin: time and changes in the environment will lead to evolution changes. Environmental changes can lead to changes in the genetic compositions of genes in the human body, resulting in offspring or new species that are different from the parents.

Scientists: humans evolve or change due to changes in gene composition in the bodies of humans, like the addition or removal of some gene traits and mixing of the genes. During reproduction, the chromosomes fuse and form a new species with similar or different characteristics from the parent.

Charles Darwin: human evolution in the future will be influenced mainly by changes in the environment which might change the gene composition in the bodies of the human being or bring about the development of the brain and result in evolution. These changes in the environment will result in either natural selection or artificial selection (Winsor 2015).

Scientists: changes in technology will influence evolution in the future by changing these humans’ physical and mental capabilities. Evolution began with the introduction of clothes, but today humans are walking with implanted valves that help them in their bodies.

Scientists; evolution in the future will be influenced by technology by resulting in the formation of robots or machinery that imitate human beings. Hence, human beings will not see the values of reproduction and making friends.[3] (Hendry, Gotanda and Svensson 2017).

Biologists: the increase in population will lead to competition within the ecosystem. Therefore in the future human population may be divided in that some humans in the larger population may break off or leave to begin a new life elsewhere. Furthermore, the larger population may be destroyed, leaving behind a small population that will evolve in either the new or the old ecosystem.

Scientists: colonization can be described similarly to what biologists have described above.

Scientists: genetic drift will also influence evolution in the future. In today’s world, most people are intermingling and intermarrying in different countries. These intermarriages will result in changes in the genes and new genes within those countries (Hendry, Gotanda, and Svensson 2017). these new species will also intermarry, which can create a new colony within the country. Additionally, gene mutations may occur, leading to the formation of a different species and hence enhancing evolution.

Biologists and scientists: we agree that evolution in the future will be there due to the current and future changes in the environment. Additionally, the use of technology that forms and shapes a new different world from the previous one and the intermarriages resulting in the formation of unique individuals or species with other physical and mental traits and capabilities will result in evolution in human beings. These new individuals that will evolve and be formed will colonize or destroy the current ones and lead to a new species.  The formation of these new species can still be described as natural or artificial selection.

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Bibliography

Hendry, Andrew P., Kiyoko M. Gotanda, and Erik I. Svensson. 2017. “Human Influences on Evolution, And the Ecological and Societal Consequences.” Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372 (1712): 20160028. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0028.

Winsor, Mary P. 2015. “Taxonomy Was the Foundation of Darwin’s Evolution.” TAXON 58 (1): 43-49. doi:10.1002/tax.581007.

 

[1] “Taxonomy Was the Foundation of Darwin’s Evolution.” (TAXON 58)

[2] “Taxonomy Was the Foundation of Darwin’s Evolution.” TAXON 58

[3] “Human Influences on Evolution, And the Ecological and Societal Consequences.” (Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B)

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