Question

Are humans still evolving? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Why not ask this in biology section instead?

Answer 2

humans are still evolving, why wouldn't we be?

Answer 3

Because I wanna see of math people are stupid enough to believe in evolution

Answer 4

evolution is is not real

Answer 5

... there is a lot of evidence for evolution

Answer 6

all of the so called evidence have failed

Answer 7

Yes. Do you know how some pinky toes are under peoples foot? Thats because our pinky toes are evolving away. My pinky toe is completely straight so my offspring will need quite a few more generation to have no pinky toes.

Answer 8

and evolution does not refute the existence or omnipotence of God, so why refuse to believe in it?

Answer 9

It's a matter of an opinion ..

Answer 10

beside it is easy to make a skull look like anything you want it to be, so therefore there are no real evidence of evolution

Answer 11

Please, nobody throw "seeded planet" and Nibiru into this conversation...

Answer 12

This is a hard math question, idk.

Answer 13

gotta find that formula, Solomon.

Answer 14

"beside it is easy to make a skull look like anything you want it to be" what?

Answer 15

Humans are technically still evolving, but are mostly subject to the conditions of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and so are not prone to any drastic "immediate" (in the geological time sense) changes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Weinberg_principle

Answer 16

Why are moderators not stopping this?

Answer 17

now since this is bio I'm going to close it, ya'll can keep it up if you want

Answer 18

you're getting your information from wiki

Answer 19

there's a couple here...

Answer 20

Find the quote that I just said on the wiki link I sent you. I actually did take biology, believe it or not.

Answer 21

I took Biology too.

Answer 22

taking a class is no substitute for thinking for yourself

Answer 23

@Peter14 I agree, which is why I don't agree with my teacher when she said evolution is correct, and that's not just because she's a woman.

Answer 24

It really depends on your view; personally I don't see that we evolved from apes due to the DNA issue, of that strand thing. (Don't ask, I forgot my biology, I am sure nature.com has it somewhere written down). I think our origin is more complex, and if someone actually does figure it out, they are truly a genius.

Evolution isn't at all a stupid idea, in fact it is genius idea; I just believe you can only evolve so far.

Then again I swear I saw a fishman in the sewers once.

Answer 25

opcode lol

Answer 26

I don't see how taking a class and thinking for yourself are mutually exclusive, I was, in fact, pointing out that my response is coming from me and not wikipedia. I'm no great biologist by any means, but all signs point to evolution to 99.99...% of biologists. Again, this should being the bio section so someone qualified like @blues can give a real answer,

Answer 27

Actually, all signs point to creation 99.99%

Answer 28

Yes! I have a smartphone. My dad did not have a smartphone when he was my age.

Answer 29

Yes, all organisms on earth are evolving. From humans right down to the simplest bacterial species. Evolution is a spontaneous, natural, constant process affecting all organisms in the discrete steps between generations - it is a necessary (and perhaps, debatably, sufficient?) condition for defining "life" from "non-life."

That said, different populations of humans are evolving at different rates. In populations facing essentially unchanged selective pressures for thousands of years - individuals in hunter gatherer societies, for examples) evolution is maybe occurring more slowly than those in developed societies.

And the different humans systems are evolving at different rates - the immune system, the endocrine system and the reproductive system are evolving the fastest. As you'd expect, given that humans have most dramatically altered the microbial and parasitic environments in which we life - and thus the immune challenges that we face - in the last hundred years.

A few notes from the discussion:

I should note that my toes are also straight with apparently far reaching implications for any putative offspring.

It is not 99.99% but 100% of scientists who support evolution. Evolution and belief in a divine being who created an evolutionary system are not mutually exclusive, though I don't happen to hold the latter belief.

And humans did not evolve 'from apes' per se but from a common, probably ape like ancestor that we share with modern apes. I have never in fifteen years as a biologist heard of 'that strand thing' or any 'DNA issue' that refutes this theory (and quite a few discussions that support it) and in the interest of my own elucidation would appreciate a specific reference beyond a generic one to Nature's online website.