Future Evolution

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probably some cool stuff too bad we won't be around to see it.

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>>8606017
>Implying evolution exists

Because of the complexity involved, all we can say are very general things. As humans have been removed almost completely from environmental pressure to procreate. As such, behaviours that encourage one to have more offspring will be selcted for, such as promiscuity, risk and general stupidity.

There is also entropy of populations to consider: now that anyone can travel anywhere in the world within 24 hours, it is a mathmatical fact that humans will eventually procreate with ever more distant populations until there is one ethnicity. This has dire consequences for the human species, as outbreeding is a dangerous contributer to specie decline, so much so that wildlife conservationists prefer to inbreed small populations rather than bring a member of the same species but geographically distinct for breeding. Behavioural problems, decreased intelligence, lack of cooperation, these are all on the cards for humanity, probably leading to a regression into the behaviours we had more 70,000 years ago.

For non-human species, the outlook is even worse. Humans have extinct (and continue to exitinct) over 60% of the species that were around 500,000 years ago, this is the holocene extinction event. Species that don't serve any immediate purpose for humans will increasingly disappear, leading to complete ecosystem collapse.

When all is said and done, I would say within the next 1 million years, humans and almost all megafuana living in specialized environments will be extinct. Whales and cetaceans will be completely gone, most shark species ect. For the first time in 63 million years, birds will be the dominant species.

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>>8606017

Required reading.

>>8607193
>now that anyone can travel anywhere in the world within 24 hours
we can do that anyway

>>8607303
>>8606017

Also the tv series "the future is wild"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0kzMmcTS8I

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>>8607193
>birds will be the dominant species

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>>8607332

Slow and steady wins the race.

>>8606017
Earth will only be habitable for 600 million more years, so not much.

>>8607344

>not much

Complex organism have only been around 800 million years. The entire Dinosaur era lasted 168 million years. I don't think you realize just how long even a million years is.

>>8607344
Why is that

>>8606017
Not sure but bye the idea lifeforms should get more and more compleax with time,and reminder that it dosent nessecary mean better mind like we do.

Humans are gonna drive all the cool stuff to extinction. We'll be left with boring shit that adapts to living near humans like raccoons and pigeons.

>>8607344
I meant 800 million
>>8607368
Yeah, I meant relatively little since we're more than halfway through the time when complex life is possible.
>>8607370
something about atmospheric oxygen falling below habitable levels
>>8607431
That's what I worry about too, the future stuff not having the chance to evolve independently of us.

>>8606017
another mass extinction event, one that includes us