The crazy camouflage of a lichen katydid

When we talk about evolution we have to think on a larger timescale though. 100,000 years is nothing in evolutions eyes. So forget pesticides and pollution. All that stuff has only happened in the last few hundred years. Not even a pimple on evolutions ass.

It seems pointless and freaky to think of what humans will be in 10 million years but animals have been here for hundreds of millions of years. What's another million or two? Are we really safe to assume that we'll be on top of the food chain forever? Can we really keep up this pace of technological advancement?

Yes, we seem to be guiding our own evolution at the moment, but even now there must be some kinds of trends of reproduction. Maybe we can't see it. Who had the most babies in the last 2000 years? Or the next 2000 years? People with darker skin? Taller people? Yet there are butt loads of short pale Chinese people. Let's say race and ethnicity dissolve as travel becomes easier, what does evolution pick for then? Smarter or dumber people? What are our most desirable traits?

No way to know really. You're right it seems like humans have transcended evolution. But I bet there will be changes that are just too small for us to see. Maybe it will turn out that over the next 10,000 years body hair will disappear all together. Except for our glorious manes of course. Maybe our ears will get smaller. Smaller noses? Who knows!

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