[Closed] What should be our next evolutionary adaptation?

The ability to be able to discriminate between fact and fiction.

...[my gums] always seems to cop-it whenever I bite into anything too hot or too hard.

for the sake of the gene pool, you'll have to die before you reproduce.

welcome to evolution.

Retractable genitals.

Other animals seem to manage this, not quite sure why it passed us by.

Retractable genitals.

Yep, I'm sick of trapping "Da Beast" behind my knee.

gills. i'd quite like some gills.

Yep, I'm sick of trapping it behind my knee.

That's not yours. It belongs to hora.

Harry the spider our knees are apparently the wrong way round so fear not there are ways we could adapt to your affliction

That's not yours. It belongs to hora.

I bought it off him. He got it, but wasn't happy with the size so flogged it on the classifieds.

Harry the spider our knees are apparently the wrong way round

I have to be careful which way I wrap it round my leg.

Yours don't retract now? Weird, you should get that seen to.

😆

Yours don't retract now?

Only when I go swimming in the sea at Tynemouth.

Answer is obvious, well for blokes anyhow. Norks. Then we could give up riding mountain bike and just sit at home an amuse ourselves for hours.

I thought Bill Hicks had this covered, something about losing a bone from our backs (Men only).

I think the quote ends with "They'd only be ladies in the audience, staring at an empty stage"

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How about a reverse missile system. You aim it at the coast off west Africa and...Boom.. it shoots in the opposite direction.

now if only.... it were possible

Common sense to actually become common.

gills. i'd quite like some gills

Tails,.....Tailoring g may be an issue but a tail would offer so many advantages, balance on the bike, tray holder, additional indicator enablerer ( even Audi drivers would have no excuse)....Yep a tail.

We lose our flesh and organs and just became a cloud of consciousness roaming the galaxy.

A third middle eye situated in the centre of the forehead, and an extra finger on the left hand.

Both these would improve smartphone usage no end, obvz.

Argos catalogues for all...

The loss of the ability to hold a religious faith.

The answer is we no longer have to wait for evolution to do it's job, we will improve our bodies ourselves. Either through altering our DNA or by upgrading our human form with technology.
How about an implant to manipulate technology by thought? next track or turn the light on/off, think the words and they appear on the screen.
Or alter our DNA to give us wings? that would be ace.

The loss of the ability to hold a religious faith.

That falls under the earlier 'The ability to be able to discriminate between fact and fiction'

How about an implant to manipulate technology by thought?

Beer would be the problem, as someone who got in a taxi and refused to tell the driver where I lived I dread to think how long I could argue with my thought controlled front door

If anything we're anti-evolving.

Similar to jekkyl's augmented evolution, we also enable traits to develop and continue that without modern technology/medicine to mitigate their impact on our ability to reproduce successfully would have meant that some of our number would have been running at the back of the pack when the wolves came, if they had survived that long. I wonder just to what extent diseases like diabetes or asthma have increased not just because of environmental/lifestyle influence but also because the relevant genes are being successfully reproduced.

[b]"Fewer women with narrow pelvises together their unborn female children now die during childbirth"*

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There is the start of research finding evolutionary impacts on obstetrics where there is potential evidence for the hypothesis that prevalence of C-section is increasing the incidence of narrow pelvic canals which...leads to more C-sections. But it might not be wholly conclusive yet.[/s]

Thanks weekendworrier - I dont half mangle language some mornings. More coffee needed 🙂

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/51/14680.full

[i]There is the start of research finding evolutionary impacts on obstetrics where there is potential evidence for the hypothesis that prevalence of C-section is increasing the incidence of narrow pelvic canals which...leads to more C-sections. But it might not be wholly conclusive yet.[/i]

ie. "Fewer women with narrow pelvises together their unborn female children now die during childbirth"

Hair on the top of my head.
It would offer sun protection, soak up sweat , keep me warm in winter and offer an early warning system to stop me banging my head.

The loss of the ability to hold a religious faith.

We already have that - its called 'Autism'.

Tiny hands and nylon hair...

But I think these things are a one off and won't be allowed to be genetically transferred as its a regressive gene

[i]We already have that - its called 'Autism'. [/i]

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The loss of the ability to hold a religious faith.
We already have that - its called 'Autism'.

Im autistic?

A second thumb where the little finger is.

I more arched back, so we can achieve the perfect posture by sitting on a sofa all day.

Im autistic?

Oh O.K., i'll do it....