Evolution (Human)

humane evolution is over we are no longer evolving. The only thing that is really evolving is are tech. and it will continue to do so until we reach a limit if there even is a limit. with that said a big catastraphic event would not olny end human life but prove my point with out tech we would die out too fast. the strong and agile would die cause they are too stupid to reinvent the smart would die cause they are too weak to fight, and as for saying human traits as for intelligence being pass on is not only dumb but false I know kids who are just well smart. But when you look at their parents its a wonder they ever got to that. The way humans evolve now is through mutation of the genes. sometimes its a good one sometimes its a bad one. but alot of the times its a bad one. This is the Reason women can only have lets say about 1.3 kids a year if we could reproduce like dogs or cats there would be too many mutations and too many kids who could not fend for themselves. Hence the family unit would be destroy not to mention feeding 8 kids would be hard

1) Things don't stop evolving if you think that we are going to stop then you don't fully understand the theory.

Relating to natural selection the most obvious way to look at the way things are going to advance is to look at those dying versus those living, people with disease weakness, people that get addicted faster to dangerous substances and actives die more then people that do not(based on assumption)given that information they would produce less children and thusly their genes would be canceled out of our future species eventually how ever slowly things change and hardly ever for the worse... considering thats a matter of opinion.

1b)As for people getting dumber... thats relatively far from the truth the retarded advancement to technology refutes that like crazy, but even if it was true it would only mean that dumber people survive better then smart people... it has nothing to do with smart being superior all that matters is you live, that is why things like flys that are born every second survive so well. I don't think people need to be smart to survive anyway, its not like we don't totally dominate the earth, life is already boring.


2) Someone mentioned this theory and I thought it was funny, the ideal that the more you use a organ or trait the more it develops... through inheritance. This is not the case, you won't lose anything unless its inefficient and something comes by with out it and does a better job at living then you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_of_acquired_characteristics

3) Some one mentioned people use 10% of your human brain, the rest is dormant is pretty much garbage as well...

* This misconception most likely arose from a misunderstanding (or misrepresentation in an advertisement) of neurological research in the late 1800s or early 1900s when researchers either discovered that only about 10% of the neurons in the brain are firing at any given time or announced that they had only mapped the functions of 10% of the brain up to that time (accounts differ on this point).
* Another possible origin of the misconception is that only 10% of the cells in the brain are neurons; the rest are glial cells that, despite being involved in learning, do not function in the same way that neurons do.
* If all of a person's neurons began firing at once, that person would not become smarter, but would instead suffer a seizure. In fact, studies have shown that the brains of more intelligent people are less active than the brains of less intelligent people when working on the same problems.
* Some New Age proponents propagate this belief by asserting that the "unused" ninety percent of the human brain is capable of exhibiting psychic powers and can be trained to perform psychokinesis and extra-sensory perception - this is.... unlikely.

"Everyone is NOT equal"

I'm going to have to stop you right there. It's not a matter of being equal, that was done already. All men are CREATED equal. We all start the same, it's outside influence and circumstances and experience that change us and shape us into who we are, and who we become. It's those exceptional few that acknowledge themselves and their capabilities, and excel beyond us, that will help us to evolve.
However, it's human nature to fight, from birth to death. Until we get beyond our rage, we're pretty f-ed.

All men are created equal. That is a philosophical debate for equality. People are not born equal, especially in society today. Perhaps our rights are equal, but people are not equal. Some are born into rich families, other into poor ones. Also some people have defects from birth.

Regarding the evolution theory. People are constantly changing, the human body is being affected by radiation, microwaves, pollution from the world we inhabit. We might not notice it but we in a way are changing slowly but surely. My two cents regarding human evolution is simply we as humans are too accustomed to our current lifestyles and evolution itself is a long...long process. It doesn't mean two people make babies and bam...we get a evolved species. A specific mutation that is beneficial has to take place and that mutated baby has to propagate etc etc etc....