its need based. does the populations body need to be Captain America level? if so, why? doesn't it mean a new predator is here that feeds on SSS equivalent of humans and been eating them for centuries?
Another question about evolution from someone who doesn't know how evolution works. Great.
If they knew everything about, why would they ask? It isn't a sin to be curious.
You know there is wikipedia.In that page or in biology book he will get a better answer than most of us can give him. Once that he knows what evolution is, I don't mind if he asks hypothetical question about it.
Another question about evolution from someone who doesn't know how evolution works. Great.
Not sure about this so I invited two other users who might know the concept better, but evolution is mostly about survining with what you have and has little to do with developing superpowers. For example, polar bears weren't just brown bears that magically turned white, originally their was one white bear who lived in a climate wear white fur just happened to be useful for hunting and his genes outlasted his siblings because he was able to eat long enough to find a mate and make more white-furred children. Technically kid who are allergic to peanuts could be considered more evolved if there was ever a scenario where that gene was more useful than the common genes. That doesn't make them necessarily fitter.
@racob7: I doubt it. Genetic engineering is in its infantile stages, mainly working on DNA recombinant, but I never can see X-men type mutation ever occurring or much less somehow us creating it. The powers that are shown in X-men just aren't congruent towards actual real life functions of cell-biology. As for neo-evoultion, it's about social evolution, right? So, I don't think that will do anything towards us getting powers, lol.
Evolution is non-directional, and occurs based on mutations, and what is beneficial and non-beneficial. As such, one cannot make any predictions as to which direction evolution will take, or the degree to which it can change organisms.
I'm pretty sure we have evolved as much as we can, we now possess the intellect and ability to change the environment around us to fit our needs, we are the most dominant species on the planet and pretty much the apex predator, don't see how we can go any farther.
@racob7: Thanks. I watched the video and in my opinion, it is just other way of saying genetic manipulation or engineering as we talked about. Again, as he said it's self-directed evolution, but from what I understand about his concept, is that it's still in the confines of what we are, when looked at the viewpoint of molecular biology. He talks about fitness, memory, beauty, and longevity, but all of those qualities have their limitation towards how much we can manipulate them and I think the doc would agree as well that X-men level abilities are too out of scope for us to manipulate on achieving such feat. Plus, we still lack a lot of knowledge on all of those qualities he mentioned as to how they work and their overall link to other systems in our body.
We won't be around much longer, judging by how we are biting the hand that feeds us (nature). We'll be replaced with another species and so on and so on.
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