The Future of Human Evolution

Do you like drinking milk or chatting with your friends? Well, you can enjoy those because of the evolution happened over the past million years, and we are still evolving. Let's find out what will we be like in the future with us!
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[@alexhutcheson8467]

A quick glance at the average youtube comment section gives me a treasure trove of anecdotal evidence that tells me that brains are not getting more efficient

[@jonathanbrown2981]

only logical comment I see here

[@Mii.2.0]

R/iamverysmart

[@ryanmathis8286]

Alot of other things in this video is wrong. The other I have never heard of but I doubt it is right either.

[@tomastavlov1168]

Right. Plenty of proof people in the past were smarter. And I'm not speaking of the people who have done a lot of stupid things since the romans.

[@brucelston]

Technology has made us lazy.

[@Leon612]

A tennis ball sized decrease? That's a lot of missing brain!

[@feynstein1004]

No wonder so many people these days are complete idiots.

[@kubaniski]

Well a large part of that is due to the decreased importance of spatial reasoning as humans as a species moved away from mobile hunters to sedentary farmers. It's why Eskimos have the largest brains but don't have the highest IQ's, as IQ tests look for skills that predict success in an "agriculturist" society. However when you look at sub-tests Eskimos dominate in terms of spatial reasoning. My point is that it's not so as simple as the brain is shrinking, we have to look at what parts are shrinking in particular.

[@feynstein1004]

CodeKillerz I know. It was a fitting reply tho. Bro, do you even humor?

[@pauldeddens5349]

and here we have conspiracy theorists thinking we are gonna turn into big fat grey aliens with abnormally large heads

[@baronfritzvonshlitz651]

Leon612 Will liberal feminism drive us to extinction?

[@rienjen]

Oh, good. I'm not fat--I'm just more evolved.

[@duckdumbsmartpplimnotbored5175]

you are just differently evolved-LUCKY NOOB CONFIRMED

[@duckdumbsmartpplimnotbored5175]

OHHHH

[@kingstonb8130]

Rien Jen they will say what and I'll say you would get it if you were smart

[@Janne-k-]

nice try cartman

[@gennymikel4296]

😄

[@VincentOak]

Humans aren't getting dumber? Work in customer service for a couple months and you'll know that's not true.

[@dlee645]

Vincent Oak Ha! So true!

[@pauldeddens5349]

I hate, and feel sorry for everyone in customer service

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

The average person used to be less educated and more prejudiced in the past. Throughout history the majority of people have been dumb peasants (of course even peasants had a few intellligent individuals, just uneducated, and the rich had their share of idiots). It's the same old same old, it is and has always been only thanks to a minority that humanity is progressing at all.

[@VincentOak]

*****​ doesn't matter You call customer service. We hate you.

[@greenanubis]

He didnt say that, he said that they MIGHT not get dumber. Btw, knowledge ≠ intelligence.

[@akabaker98]

And wisdom teeth will be a thing of the past...

[@akabaker98]

Forndorwen Also true. If a bit more depressing...

[@RyuuseiBoy]

They told my generation would not have them cause evolution... lies and slander!

[@darthszarych5588]

akabaker80 I hope so

[@nihilisticpancakeface6553]

And so are those useless pinky toes

[@dianeknut6587]

actually new generations already don't have them!

[@losttribe3001]

Well...we aren't getting any smarter...

[@jack_otterson4477]

You do is speak the truth

[@feynstein1004]

But but I'm getting Smarter Every Day.

[@feynstein1004]

Dorient François It does, actually. But the main point is that for hunters, if you aren't smart enough, you have a very high chance of dying. This means that over generations, smartness will be a preferred trait and passed on. In our current society, however, even if you're extremely dumb, you will still survive and most probably pass on your genes. So smartness isn't a preferred trait.

[@Nuoska]

Survival of the fittest isn't the only way evolution works. Mate selection is still filtering out a some of the dumb genes out there. And having bigger brain doesn't necessarily mean you're good at logical deduction and planning. Hunters need big brains because they need to be aware of their surroundings and good at processing visual information.

[@SteelBollocks]

Nuoska you are joking right? some of the dumbest people are doing the most baby making since they have no other skills to contribute to society

[@LamirLakantry]

Of course we're still evolving. Evolution isn't something that stops or reaches an end goal. Well, except for extinction.

[@chipcheesechip5119]

Ok buddy

[@LamirLakantry]

@@chipcheesechip5119 Hello? Got a notification on a 6 year old comment. No idea what you're trying to say.

[@lauradevries9242]

What about genetically changing humans to naturally survive on different planets.

[@Danspy501st]

That is not so bad idea, but I think it still will take some years before someone can do that. But again, not a bad idea

[@edelamar1042]

Tim de Vries It could be possible, however things like ethics nowadays get in the way...

[@nattygsbord]

Its problematic with sex in space. First of all its hard to mate with your partner, secondly the seemen might just fly around.. and then human bones doesn't fare well in space... and babies might need many many years to learn to walk. We aren't simply designed for space flight. And bringing a woman on board on a spaceship would just bring bad luck, it would be like bringing a woman on board a ship traveling to East Asia in the 1600s... when a bounch of men lived in a crampy space for years without any contact whatsoever with the other gender.. and having no relief for their hornyness.

[@Supergecko8]

+Daniel Jensen we are talking decades, so yeah basically behind the corner

[@lauradevries9242]

This would also apply to surviving in microgravity.

[@salameri6573]

Imagine humans of the future look onto fossils of us and a creationist says "my ancestors are not Homo sapiens"

[@theosnelson1639]

So no X-Men superpowers, but we can drink milk seems like a win

[@finleyayers8745]

A big win

[@thescarlethunter2160]

So many food we cant eat without that powerful power

[@damiancoloma9107]

yup

[@Master_Therion]

2:00 Our brains are shrinking because of society... yep, that about sums it up.

[@AlanmanAaron]

Master Therion be careful about what you mean by that. Yes, our brains are getting smaller but that doesn't mean that we're becoming dumber, if anything that means we're becoming *even* smarter. Smaller brains are more efficient by using less energy, but also like modern processors compared to those from way back, ours are much smaller but can do things much faster. Not to mention people today are also smarter than those from before (although that's likely as a result of more abstract education and better nutrition).

[@marvintpandroid2213]

idiocracy comment? .....

[@SirEnd3r]

KILL ME

[@nattygsbord]

maybe it easier for a woman to give birth to someone with a small head

[@redlinerer]

we only use 10% of our brain on average anyways, its most likely some of the 90% we dont use that has been lost, as you say to be more efficient.

[@АлександрБолбат-ы1у]

Idiocracy is happening!

[@s0mar885]

Smaller brains do not equal dumber poeple.

[@indigo4381]

s0mar *people

[@s0mar885]

Colin Gifford nooooooooo :(

[@sporemaster9108]

What Michael meant was how people have developed smaller, more resource efficient brains as we have become specialists at a few areas, not generalists like our ancestors were, where the bigger brain allowed them to be jacks and jills of all trades, but masters of none. Whereas in today's society, we need people who are masters of chemistry, engineering, entertainment or sports to continue to innovate in those fields. The trend toward specialisation was caused by the agricultural revolution, as people didn't have to be good at everything to survive, tribes now had people who could focus on a few tasks and do them really well, perhaps someone made better tools, while others innovated or some tended to resistant and more abundant crops. Although everything I have said above that doesn't mean we aren't vulnerable to idiocratic dystopias, as it has always been, we need to be more careful of what we are exposed to in our day to day lives and to keep our minds sharp and our bodies ready.

[@nattygsbord]

We can just get robot bodies, like Krang in teenage mutant ninja turtles.

[@MuadDib1402]

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favoured the noblest traits of man, now began to favour different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilised and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.

[@IvaNiftyChannel]

Evolution of a social species is quite different than evolution of solitary animals. Traits don't just make individuals fitter, but the entire society; like altruism or care for the young. What you have today is evolution of societies, which is a lot faster than natural human evolution. Not that you should disregard it of course.

[@comradesillyotter1537]

bit too late to say 21st, been happening before. Doubt we'll dumb down in any significant regard before the whole technological super wave hits us. o.o

[@Ladifour]

Evolution does not make moral judgments. Evolution does not necessarily reward that which is good or beautiful. It simply rewards those who reproduce the most.

[@carboxysome2630]

Yes,the pressures on our species to be intelligent was probably the greatest evolutionary 'push' that any species ever experienced.Just look at how quickly(evolutionary) our brains have increased in size.And ironically,we did it to ourselves.Constant conflict,wars,famine,disease...no claws,muscles or teeth could save you,you HAD to be smart and think quick-or die.But today most of these pressures are gone,not that I wish them back,but it certanly changes our evolutionary path.

[@traplover6357]

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper intellect isn't a ground based factor that humans live in complex societies. I mean, even before, it wasn't as well. It was sometimes the more athletic and fit and is now today due to popularizing sports. Intelligence is a trait, not categorized as an individual group. So intelligence is still present and probably even more so due to more nurturing environments like the Internet as opposed to just struggling to survive and not inventing stuff.

[@equarg]

Based what people make their avatars look like on Ark..... I fear human body cusumization!

[@sebakyster]

equarg jajajaja

[@cristianverdugogalaz8725]

yeah lets hope its not like that XD

[@spindash64]

equarg I can imagine it right now, a bunch of dongs waltzin' down the street like nothing is wrong with this picture

[@liammitchell8568]

I hope they make it so that if you try to get your baby stronger it's intelligence goes down

[@XBoY4869]

These violent delights have violent ends...

[@Coconutsales]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[@busyrand]

Saleem Says Cease all motor functions!

[@spinal_capped]

The maze isn't meant for you...

[@novastar3990]

What?

[@jhall19k45]

let's not kid ourselves....we're getting dumber

[@8jrleyva]

I can already see myself telling my grandchildren "Back in my day, we had to exercise, be healthy, and WISH to get the body we wanted, while you guys can choose as you wish."

[@MrCyanGaming]

If you're reading this, have a Great day! 😄😄😄

[@RotatingBuffalo]

Cool Dude its not even clickbait, wat

[@Leo-pw3kf]

No! I will wallow in misery! You're not my boss.

[@yurisonovab3892]

Why thank you! You too!

[@deadaxecess2699]

who tf plays minecraft anymore?

[@spindash64]

Julian Saldana People recreating the circuitry of a Sega Genesis out of Redstone

[@yourlifeisagreatstory]

2:32 - *The recent hoarding of toilet paper is an example that might challenge that statement.* Oh, for those reading this in 2120, a virus pandemic (CoronaVirus 19) broke out. Before people stock piled canned foods and other vital necessities, they took to the stores and bought mass quantities of *toilet paper,* causing a shortage.

[@heic1971]

Wall-E has already predicted the future.

[@earllemongrab6913]

I just wanted to say that I love this channel so much, I hope you never stop teaching me new things all the time :)

[@twisterlord665]

0:16 *Columbine Flashbacks*

[@aaronzapolin4866]

TwisterLord what

[@twisterlord665]

Julios Pizza Google Eric Harris if you don't get it.

[@alexia7198]

Erick Harris

[@Naijiri.]

wait how does a school shooting have to do with "0:16"

[@twisterlord665]

Ya Boi Google Eric Harris. You'll get it if you research hard enough.

[@hufman9807]

I really like hearing the words, "maybe" and "probably" over and over,.

[@pwnsage]

Can we get a video on CRISPR? (I think that's how you spell it)

[@cpob2013]

i think they did one

[@vampyricon7026]

Caaros, The King of Chaos I think they already did one.

[@RomrotMechanikos]

You mean that thing that will turn us all into furrys one day?

[@BlackMasamuneX]

We'll be able to fly and shoot energy blasts from our hands of course.

[@Siddhartha040107]

Bigger skulls and smaller brains? Now there's space for cobwebs!

[@nayibnoyola9438]

I hope humans live for at least another 500 years.

[@alexsiemers7898]

We will no problem!

[@TheBLC94]

Alex Siemers nah, AI will have killed us all by then

[@alexsiemers7898]

TheBLC94 We have probably always said that, and it's never happened. It's nearly impossible to remove all seven billion of us at this point.

[@Naijiri.]

AI doesnt need to. self-extinction will happen at this point

[@WestonTeli]

well if we don't pay attention to Global warming, we'll last 1000

[@nathantron]

Shorter and Heavier.... wow.. Never would have thought that

[@spindash64]

Nathan Trone Thicc confirmed?

[@duckdumbsmartpplimnotbored5175]

damn they T H I C K

[@justzeroboros]

imagine what the girls going to look like in a few decades, I would love to see that happen

[@ck88777]

Scishow, definitely do an episode reviewing the recent John Hopkins and NYU phase II clinical studies on the anti-depressive and anti-anxiolytic effects of psilocybin.

[@SuperExodian]

genetic engineering might be the demise of diversity, i can already imagine entire cultures genetically engineering entire generations to be almost identical, just because it's the latest fad. which would lead to a fucking boring species. or alternatively, drive a massive wedge in between the poor and the rich, as the rich can afford it and the poor cannot, leading to the rich having perfect children with 200IQ and hercules level strength while the poor being regular old humans. (same can probably be said about advanced cybernetics, but there the question would be, how many people are willing to get rid of organic parts to put in metal parts) i might do it if they're reliable enough/my biological parts are malfunctioning, such as my eyes, which are almost useless now at age 24, i'm almost guaranteed to be blind by 45 at the rate i'm losing eye strength, would be handy to just get rid of them and replace them with camera's that send a videofeed to my brain somehow

[@douchemanjr4738]

Bart De Bock I don't see a reason for all to be the same. If you can actually design people however you want, it would be pretty straightforward to add a few random mutations here and there just so we're different.

[@douchemanjr4738]

Bart De Bock Sorry about your vision, by the way.

[@colmryan9289]

Bart De Bock In the show Steven Universe, there's an alien species called gems who are each created with specific traits and characteristics, before being sent to their pre determined jobs. Anyone different than what they were supposed to be is killed instantly. You can see some of the problems with the possibility of genetically engineered people based society.

[@carboxysome2630]

Genetic engineering could be the demise of all life,actually.But it can also be our ticket for the future.If,or rather,when the genetic manipulation if fully understood,the things that could be done with such a technology are beyond what any of us can ever imagine.

[@Supergecko8]

+Bart De Bock I don't think that it will actually be the case, not only I think it will be available as much as vaccines (unless people decide to ban the practice) but thanks to the robotic revolution the economy will be deeply affected, I think that by the end of the century high poverty could be eradicated.

[@jaimie00]

A team of researchers in Austria published a paper in _Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ suggesting that bigger head sizes may have a lot to do with the increase in C-sections. Logic suggests, they note, that if babies with over-large heads are allowed to survive to adulthood-rather than dying during birth, as was the case for most of human history-and thereby carrying the genes for larger heads, then more babies with the same genes will be born in the future. Larger babies have been shown to be healthier in general than smaller babies, increasing the odds of reproducing. So it may well be that having a natural childbirth will, at some point in our future, be impossible.

[@alkatron768]

This gave me a really mean idea. "For the future of humanity, heavier people should get punished for reproducing."

[@carboxysome2630]

The only (big) problem is who is going to decide about who should be let to reproduce.

[@boldCactuslad]

Yes, eugenics does sound like a great idea, but it never ends up going well, does it? You end up needing to have some people decide what is "fit" and what is "unfit", and before you know it they've declared all their political rivals "rather unfit" and everyone with their same skin colour "rather fit". For the future of humanity, less successful people should get punished for being less successful by being less successful. Anything more leads to hate or can spiral to genocide.

[@christopherrapczynski204]

well I mean they could just use genome modifying to change the genes that regulate hunger that make many people just eat due to an evolved lust for conservation and food.

[@thecluelessgenius3099]

You got something against heavy people? I'm 6'4" and weigh over 200 pounds but I'm not overweight, I'm just a big dude. So you gonna punish me reproducing?

[@TheGrandMasterPotato]

Yeah, heavy =/= fat. Body builders are heavy, but they're hardly "unfit". Though their athleticism may be less so as a result of genetics and more about their lifestyle.

[@pupperemeritus9189]

brains are shrinking because their architecture needs to be smaller and efficient and not power hungry like an r9 Fury X

[@baranxlr]

But how can evolution be real if the earth is flat?

[@admiralcat3809]

But how can it be flat if there are curvatures?

[@spindash64]

Captain Cat But how can there be curvatures if we are all on a Chem trail induced acid trip caused by the lizard people?

[@Vathorst2]

1:09 It was in this moment all hell broke lose in the minds of the vocal minorities

[@computer5272]

Genetic mutations just happen. Whether these stay for generations or die out instantly depends on pressures in the environment. In modern society we have removed pretty much all pressures, so most mutations, all but the worst and most harmful are spread. Given this premise it would follow that should we continue being a society where modern medicine and technology ignores any mutations and allow all to live equally we will find that human beings will become incredibly diverse in the way we appear and function, possibly giving way to new species. Species meaning we are unable to interbreed, as is the definition. I'm not suggesting that someone will birth a completely different creature for all of you lesser educated people who may read this...

[@IIARROWS]

I don't know why anyone would think that "human stopped evolving"...

[@phantasm1234]

Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!

[@ThePhantazmya]

Would we design our babies like we would roll a d&d character? lol

[@yoshtg]

oh no.. stupid people also tend to have more children RIP humanity. listen: we need PIGD IMPROVEMENTS ASAP i dont want to go backwards

[@Vixikats]

Have you seen the US President-Elect? Idiocracy is already right around the corner.

[@yoshtg]

Kats agreed

[@yoshtg]

Kats but keep in mind what most people didnt vote at all. so yeah, gives me a bit of hope

[@Vixikats]

Actually, more people voted in this election than have ever voted in a single election in US history.

[@yoshtg]

Kats k thats kinda alarming

[@ratelslangen]

I think using one area of humans to determine which women have more children is kind of weird. For example, in the netherlands, tall people tends to have more children.

[@biskte84]

first thing that popped into my mind when he had said "we could customize ourselves like an avatar" was the file Gattaca. those of which were conceived without DNA manipulation are held in a lower status to the modified citizens of which were of a higher class.

[@Manic_Mitch.official]

I would like to take a sort of poll. Who here is a christian and also believes in evolution? (Me)

[@blairh7229]

I am a creationist/Christian. If you do the research, the evidence obviously does not fit evolution.

[@blairh7229]

What evidence do you have that evolution fits with Christians?

[@danf2]

Mitchell Staley Bible says not to be lukewarm, have faith or dont.

[@pdxhillbilly]

The bible is bunk

[@Manic_Mitch.official]

dan f i am firm in my faith and it shows in all aspects of my life. I dont smoke, drink, swear, i read scriptures and pray daily. If you believe evolution and Christianity are mutually exclusive you are a sheep simply following in the tradition of your fathers. The bible is not clear on how men were created. It says from the dirt Adam was created. Evolution says that organisms in the dirt and made of the same things as dirt were the start of evolution. The day evolution is proven true or 90% true will you lose your faith and say "ah evolution has been proven i guess the atheists won" what will you do?

[@TylerMatthewHarris]

Gattaca or Idiocracy. "Difficult to see, the future is."

[@docterfantazmo]

In the future can I have a child with a spider body? To help them restrain their enemies and drink their vital fluids for nourishment/sport.

[@moritzl7065]

*insert totally overused "your anus" joke here*

[@joshuapritt4627]

I just love this youtube channel and how they talk about the science behind why we are evolving the way we are most channels would talk about the different ways we may evolve but they go in depth short and sweet I like it

[@TheMightyMagic]

Isn't the statistical link between human brain size and intelligence very weak? Overall brain mass and volume are very weak predictors of intelligence. Scientists are much more interested in looking at the relative volume and density of individual brain regions. It would be interesting to see which parts of the brain are shrinking and if any are actually growing.

[@daisho509]

Yeahhhhh as soon as I hit 19 my body tossed that lactose gene out the window

[@Gothead420]

Its only finished when a biotransfer into a machinebody is attainable for a human being. I'd totally do that!

[@nattygsbord]

There are little difference really. A robot got a sensor with uses electricity to send signals to a computer (A PLC) which in turn sends electricity to a machine to do something... A human uses a sensor (nose, eyes, feeling with the hands) and send electricity to the brain, which sends electric orders to the body to move your bodyparts, and have your hand grip a pen or something. So humans are basicly robots. But made of blood and flesh instead for steel.

[@Gothead420]

nattygsbord Thats the point. Ultimate goal for me: get a sophisticated machine body.

[@Bouitaz]

As one Transhumanist to another, are you not worried about not staying you? Seen the Star Trek Transporter accident episode? What if you only become a copy of you? That's why I'd rather start by exchanging my neurons for artificial ones piece by piece. To remain me. Forever!! ,)

[@spencerwadsworth913]

I personally wouldn't go full robot. I would totally do cybernetic enhancements for my body and brain, but I'd still want my soul to live in a home of meat.

[@Gothead420]

Spencer Wadsworth Show me your soul. Thats why i like that thought: "Me" is a moot concept...

[@sethcrockett9061]

When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case

[@glenallan6279]

Why would anyone think we’d have stopped evolving. That makes no sense. I mean i get that how we are evolving has radically changed with our techno-chemical environment, but that’s still evolution.

[@Linkous12]

If anyone is interesting in looking more into this topic, I highly recommend reading "All Tomorrows" by C.M. Kosemen.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Lets cross Electric Eels into out genome, making us immune to electricity and giving us the ability to not only shock the shit out of things, but detect electrical impulses! We might can even control technology with out MINDS much more easily! Bwahaha

[@Armendicus]

Yes the superior Technomancer race will finally grace this world!! Mwuhaaahahahaa!!

[@ThrottleKitty]

Armendicus Hopefully they don't have slimey skin and need to roll around in water to not dry out and die! 8D

[@ThrottleKitty]

Sam Wegener No they don't. They only hurt themselves on 'accident' essentially. It is most certainly not every time they 'hunt prey', it would end up killing them. They aren't really "electric proof" though I will admit, but they can safely conduct lethal amounts through their body. We have conducted experiments to shock them, and almost any shock we through at them just flows through them with minimal injury compared to pretty much any other living creature.

[@Ganara426]

"...compared to pretty much any other *living* creature" You monster! D:

[@ThrottleKitty]

Ganara426 Dead things are typically reanimated by electricity, not hurt by it! ;P

[@robinbowman1926]

I don't have a source and I can certainly go find one but from what I remember the first people to drink non human milk were the proto-Indo-European peoples, who originated in the Baltic region and spread to Europe, India and the Middle East. The PIE people were nomadic horse people and the genetic evidence points to them as the originators of the Lactose Tolerance gene. So the prevailing theory is that they drank horse milk. The domestication of the Auroch (Ancient Cows) in Europe happened much later.

[@JayDieTye]

"in the future women would be shorter and heavier" They've predicted feminism, y'all!

[@pritamchakravorty8350]

Tera post dekhke comment check karne aaya ek bhi like nhi

[@JayDieTye]

@@pritamchakravorty8350 f i know.. thanks for liking XXD

[@frostyw]

So so weird to hear about the heart study on a widely watched stream. I grew up only a few miles from the Study. :)

[@diphyllum8180]

The bit about brain-shrinkage is total hogwash. We've already eliminated some of the limiting factors on head size. For example, C-sections make a huge difference in terms of this. If C-sections remain widely available, large heads will no longer be selected against to anywhere near the same extent, and brain sizes will naturally increase. Projecting from the past 20,000 years as if it indicates a still relevant trend is ridiculous, when conditions which limit brain size have radically changed just in the past few generations.

[@douchemanjr4738]

Michael Vipperman Either large heads or tight V's...

[@diphyllum8180]

***** That our brains have been shrinking between 20,000 years ago and recently is true. That this trend will continue, now that C-sections are readily available and easily survivable and nutrition is way more accessible than ever before, would be a terrible assumption and I highly doubt any of the researchers are actually proposing it. Just sounds like a pop-sci misinterpretation.

[@rdizzy1]

Homo erectus on average had smaller brains than we do, yet they had no c sections. They are speaking of the change from Cro-magnon, to us, generally.

[@Wombat1916]

+Michael Vipperman There was an item on BBC Radio a few days ago that indicated that since C-sections have become more widely available, women with relatively narrow hips no longer die in child birth. This had lead to a small but measurable increase in the percentage of women with narrowing hips. Evolution in action?

[@haydencapps]

All of this is just naval gazing and deciding on a select few data points that push your theory and then basically saying we guess this thing but really we have no idea. If a scientist had to make a bet ( they'd never see the money although) that any of these theories of speculation would come true, none would make it. You can't predict evolution using past trends, it's not a math function. All it is is adaptation to environment and to think we know what the environment was like/will be everywhere on earth on evolutionary timescales is completely ridiculous. Who hired these scientists? What's the point of this? It's just adaptation for the best environmental fitness so whatever happens to humans will be the best possibility anyway. so what would knowing this information help?

[@blackknight50277621]

sooooo... it's like a node shrink from 22nm to 14nm

[@CorneliusSneedley]

And we think there is paranoia about GMO's now. . .

[@-kxvin-5239]

I want my tail like a saiyan back

[@enby_kensei]

We literally have an entire movie showing why genetically modifying our species is a bad idea. (lol Gattaca joke)

[@JiveDadson]

Look up the word "literally." Then quit using it.

[@enby_kensei]

***** Dude, grammar is a linguistic concept that we as a species made up ourselves. I highly doubt that my misuse of the word "literally" will cause a massacre our get me arrested, so just calm the fuck down please.

[@aaronsmith5864]

JiveDadson yeah he literally used literally correctly in that sentence since we do actually have a movie about that

[@enby_kensei]

Aaron Smith Yeah, you're literally right. I literally referenced a movie that literally actually exists. So I literally didn't misuse the word.

[@aaronsmith5864]

Max D. Well I mean now your literally being redundant lol

[@TommyLapointeBlondin]

Apparently humans are also getting sexier since attractivness made a huge part of mate selection in the past few hundreds of years

[@RMoribayashi]

Watch the movie Gataca If you want to see one dystopian view of what might happen if we get made to order babies through genetic engineering

[@feynstein1004]

I don't think we'll descend into a dystopia. They're very difficult to self-sustain.

[@aaronsmith5864]

Feynstein 100 I mean were doing an okay job at sustaining the one were in now. I'm sure people in the future will look back and be like "hey kids look at this a fossilized chicken ncnugget people back in the stupid age used to think this was food, oh look at that its still crispy"

[@feynstein1004]

Aaron Smith So the modern world is a dystopia? Huh. That hasn't been my experience.

[@aaronsmith5864]

Well it was a joke and I'm glad you have a good life but I bet you'd have a different opinion on on the whole modern dystopia thing if you lived in Somalia or north Korea the congo the slums of Mexico city or Mumbai or just about anywhere that 2/3 of the world's population has to live. Compared to how most of the people on earth live gattaca would be a paradise so maybe we are in a dystopia after all

[@feynstein1004]

Aaron Smith Hmm. I don't get the references. Guess I'll have to watch the movie.

[@kasuha]

Human evolution absolutely didn't stop, it's just the selection factors what changed. Currently the evolution - at least in first world countries - is towards better ability to survive and be successfull in a large society. Many people have problems with after moving to cities, suffer from depression and unemployment and have reduced amount of children. The super active, super successful ones surprisingly suffer similar problem as they don't have time to have a family. The future belongs to these that manage both to succeed in the society, and have kids. That's evolution in action right now.

[@ariadnie]

I would have thought the skull size getting bigger on average might be partly due to the rise in C-section. Babies with big head survive birth more often now, as well as their mothers surviving and potentially having more, big-headed babies.

[@DennyVlogs]

Intelligence will decline, intelligent people are too work focused and don't reproduce as much, whilst people with lower IQ have more time for family

[@cortster12]

Trying to predict the future of evolution is futile. You know why? Because the number of potential branching paths is unfathomable. All life arose from a single organism, after all. Besides, most of the evolution happening today isn't really from natural selection (well, kind of), but from other races interbreeding. Ever wonder why humans look so diverse, yet other animals look so similar? This is why. Purely the result of numerous populations separated for thousands of years finally intermingling in the last few thousand years, and even more so nowadays.

[@carboxysome2630]

Yeah but it's still fun talking about those possibilities.

[@kelticsage]

future human= grey "alien"

[@Crazyvale100]

What? There isn't much more diversity in humans compared many other species. There aren't even any real races, if you go by the proper definition. Just look at dogs. They are diverse.

[@cortster12]

Incineration Dogs are diverse because we bred them that way. Kind of a bad example.

[@miguelpascoa]

Humans look so different because our brains recognise the smallest of the differences between us, animals look the same within thei species bacause our brain dont have that same capacity to diferenciate!

[@Efreeti]

I would have expected this question to be broader. When you think about it, our sun is less than halfway through its lifespan, and even if you only factor in the time left until the Sun changes enough to make Earth inhospitable to human life, that's at the very least a billion years. The first land animal evolved less than half a billion years ago. I think humans will change A LOT before the end.

[@willlastnameguy8329]

I always knew people were gettung stupider.

[@Rettequetette]

Stupider and stupiderer... Edit: on a serious note, just realized that language evolves, too. Maybe "stupider" will be the norm in a few years.

[@BraydenDarrell]

So, right now is big brain time.

[@TheLoserface45]

Talk more about genetic engineering

[@borrellipatrick]

I'm thinking it's the latina women in Framingham Massachusetts that are having a lot babies. They tend to be shorter and are somewhat more curvy than other ladies 😍

[@keco185]

I suggest the movie idiocracy which though comedy, addresses the issue of people evolving to be dumber.

[@CDeruiter5963]

Is there a potential link between technological advancements and decreasing brain size? For example, were there noticeable changes when humans developed the abilities to read, write, and use computers respectively?

[@swisstraeng]

Cooper de Ruiter reading is not an ability, you learn it.

[@CDeruiter5963]

I was more thinking of early humans. As written languages were developed, was this innovation accompanied by a decrease in brain size?

[@monjier]

Only thing that will make your brain bigger is learning languages

[@BlueEyesDudeDragon31]

I think it would be the other way around. To interpret specific vocal sounds and hieroglyphs, our brains would have to be more specific and developped.

[@CDeruiter5963]

+BrownRedEyes I was generally uncertain, my intuition tells me that you're most likely correct. But, on the other hand, I was wondering if it was possible that the structural changes in the brain led to some areas increasing in size/development and others decreasing? A kind of consolidation of processing power if you will.

[@FirstRisingSouI]

Can I evolve myself to stop aging?

[@cpob2013]

genetic engineering

[@feynstein1004]

I'm sorry to inform you that you can't. You have trillions of cells in your body and modifying each and every one's genome is impossible.

[@QuantumSeanyGlass]

+Feynstein 100 I'm sorry to inform you that you're wrong. Even before CRISPR, the most recent advancement in genetic engineering, DNA strands could be transmitted through viruses to modify every, or almost every, cell in an organism. Now, such a package would likely be much more precise and easily produced.

[@feynstein1004]

QuantumSeanyGlass I've never heard of it. Links please?

[@genessab]

QuantumSeanyGlass no, zygotes could be changed. But fully grown humans, with billions of cells growing and dying all the time? Improbable to happen.

[@dantefrigerio1076]

What if we have smaller brains but because of technologies and education we have more knowledge so we don't need such a large brain.

[@fishypaw]

'In the future people will be fatter and dumber'? Erm, that's already happening.

[@Maaaarz]

I kinda hoped that you will mention some more recent example of human natural selection. Like the uneven split in blood groups, in theory they should follow classic mendel rules, but they don't, possibly due to some of the many plagues of the middle ages. Or even more recently- the prevalence of sickle-cell anemia in africa due to it giving a partial resitance to malaria

[@noealva]

if we're going to genetically modify humans we have to do it to everyone

[@thegreatwalrus6574]

Possibly not. Maybe we could make all humans smarter. But we could make people in South America that have a high risk of Malaria be immune. Or people in Canada have more tolerance to the cold, and make Africans have more tolerance to heat.

[@thegreatwalrus6574]

But I do generally agree that genetic modification should be open to everyone if it were to happen.

[@Dan_Therapist]

only when we've mastered genetic variation in modifications. But as I fear, what will happen is a lot of countries will make modifications mandatory using the same source genes. When a disease shores up a lot of people will be wiped clean

[@noealva]

im saying this because a country could make an army of "super" humans, we've been through this before

[@carboxysome2630]

It has to be done before you're even born.I'm not sure how much can we genetically and phenotypically change already formed adults and children.

[@NoahNobody]

Life is seemingly more and more simulated. You get to design your own avatar offspring.

[@cheyennethesylveon6186]

I was born without tonsils and without wisdom teeth what does that mean? lol should I join the Xmen XD

[@feynstein1004]

Perhaps but you definitely should have lots and lots of children, so your mutation has a higher chance of getting passed on and shaping the population.

[@cheyennethesylveon6186]

Feynstein 100 lol I always said I wanted kids XD not now I'm still young but definetly some day

[@feynstein1004]

CheyenneTheSylveon Glad to hear it. Happy reproducing.

[@cheyennethesylveon6186]

weird way to put it but lol XD it won't be for a while I'm only 18 and 6 months

[@feynstein1004]

CheyenneTheSylveon Well, I didn't mean right away. But you know, eventually.

[@marksayler7575]

2:36 like a smart phone

[@stardreamer8996]

I hope the next stage in human evolution is the one where we fight the last boss.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

if evilution actually existed,,, man would have 4 legs and 4 arms similar to a centaur. he would be able to swing thru trees with just his arms.. a prehensile tail.. he would hear better than a dog with ears the size of a mule.. swim faster than a dolphin.. run faster than a leopard... have the strength of a gorilla.. the eyes of a hawk and the brains of a man and women would be picking berries and cooking

[@joedoe5922]

The increased size of human skulls might be caused by an increase in the amount of babies born through Caesarean section (since babies with larger heads are surviving through birth and growing up healthily, procreating).

[@Jay-dp5wp]

Future is deeeep deep in the water. It’s gonna get too hot to be on land, and we can’t agree enough to go to space

[@Raw_naq]

2:46 bc now it's full of shit, thus bigger!

[@elizabethmazzara8163]

can you do a video on what snot/boogers are made of because what are they really

[@FabledThunder]

You can blame the chubby chasers for that.

[@Blake4014]

Those beta losers who can't get anyone else, correct. Those more fitter ones, tend to focus on career and success than breeding. Unfortunately a very bad trend in the long run.

[@that1valentian769]

The future is simply having your mind in a robotic body immune to hunger, disease, and adverse effects of gravity.

[@chaoswebz]

shorter, heavier, and less intelligent. Sounds great.

[@seanlewis3381]

At the end with you speaking of the breeding program ideas where we could make humans like we make avatars in video games made me think of the bene gesserit and their breeding programs.

[@erronblack1]

Evolution is a mystery.

[@Yal_Rathol]

we've been saying for a very long time that the americans have inflated heads, and now we're proven correct.

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

As if your or any other people were any better

[@Yal_Rathol]

May the Science be with You well, considering scientists have yet to prove any other race has had their skulls inflate in recent history, i would say that in that regard, yes. other people are "better". though your definition of better seems kinda loose here, considering _i'm fucking joking mate_.

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

When there's nothing to thin out the weak, weakness becomes more common.

[@laney6825]

PistonAvatarGuy okay that statement is sounding a little bit like Eugenics

[@nardo218]

They just found out that there's a copyediting function in our RNA that will make it a lot harder to program our DNA like computer coding. Basically, there's a strand of correction RNA that has an ideal version stored in it, and it comes along after transcription and tries to fix mutations. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

[@Reggaetonaldo]

Short women are my thing 😉

[@michelnegrao3287]

thanks for using cm and kg

[@pppparanoidddd]

This video is a sin I have to go read the bible now