Assuming that humans are still around in 250 million years, would you like to take a guess as to what ways we might possibly evolve (or devolve) in that time?

The appendix turns out to be useful and adaptive, so we are not likely to lose it. Say goodbye to the pinky toe, though. And if history is a guide we will continue to encephalize, so we will have larger heads and females will have to have a broader pelvis.

I read Ishmael recently and was totally planning on asking this question soon!!!! GQ GQ GQ GQ

Hrm.

I think we’ll get taller and broader overall, as nutrition gets better.

Now this song is playing in my head. ;-/

I didn’t even have to click it, @ccrow! Hahaha!

@aprilsimnel @ccrow HAHA i totally knew what it was gona be before I clicked it too. Great minds….

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we’ll be spread all over the universe(the extraterrestrials contact will be made).Maybe the Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid or something else.The discriminations,religion and all stupid ideas won’t be around anymore(probaly other stupid ideas will exist)The tech will be sky high(compared to today level)(probaly we will know about 60% of what’s to know).Probaly our social system will be totally different.(no marriage,no divorce,no adoption etc).
I don’t think that physiological we will evolve very much because the tech will help as.(maybe we’ll become some king of Borg(from Star Trek))

We will become human/machine hybrids, with memories that can be downloaded and stored.

We’ll all be shiny, anti-bacterial and anti-viral beings that live to the ripe age of 225.

We will be very similar to who we are now except we will possibly have some webbing happening on our feet and hands. Our bodies will be taller, more thin, less body hair or more body hair. Those that recieve healthcare will most likely have small mechanical anti-bodies living inside of them to combat terminal illness and to take over if the white blood cells decide to vacation. Our teeth will be sharper to handle the onslaught of zombies and our vision will be improved to that of an eagle as will our hearing and sense of smell. We will be much like superheros without special powers.

@pdworkin Per bigger heads…well, I think the human head has gotten as big as it can. To compensate our brains have folds in them, kind of like stuffing something that’s a little to big in a box. No other animal has folds I don’t think.
@deni Tell Ishmael I’m sorry!
@aprilsimnel Good answer! I think that may well happen too.
@ccrow Oh man. Thanks. Now it’s stuck in my head!
@lostinParadise Now THERE’s a thought. I mean, if needed we get computer chips implanted in our brains now! Maybe they’ll come up with some sort of enhancement that will be mandatory at birth….Great Answer!
@spatzie You are already a shiny anti-bacterial anti-viral being and I believe you’re pretty close to 225, aren’t you?? Muhaaaaa!
@judochop Why would our hands get webbed? I can’t see that that would serve any purpose, unless we went aquatic….
Hmmm. Now I’m wondering what scientist will change about us genetically.

Kurt Vonnegut has a great little book on this very subject: Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction). As with all Vonnegut, great reading.

I second @LostInParadise. I bet by then we’ll be able to download our consciousness to some kind of metaconscious pool of material thought.

We will have evolved into many different versions of human as we spread through the universe and colonise places with different environmental factors that will drive our evolution in different directions.

@aprilsimnell ….as nutrition gets better.
I would have thought ”if nutrition gets better” might be more to the point…

@Adagio -I think that will definitely be the case in some parts of the world. The more we learn about how our bodies process nutrients, there will be changes in how the human body looks. There could even be genetic manipulation from science to jumpstart such changes, though it might not be what’s going to happen to everyone, though.