Suppose every human were eliminated from the earth, the earth stays pretty much in its present form with no noticeable changes. Is my understanding wrong to assume the there is belief that humans would in millions\billions of years would sprout up again. If not then why? Would it be because no species of ape is compatible\able to evolve to human form? What would make some apes evolve and others not evole? What did otrher species of ape evolve into? Are there some apes who are simply identical throughout their entire existance on Earth? This does seem to be the case, doesnt it? Will the Earth ever see new human species via evolution? if not then why?
It would depend on how all the humans were eliminated, and what sort of organisms were left behind when we were gone. How do you eliminate humans leaving the Earth unchanged? That's a pretty tall order seeing as how we're all over the place (including under the oceans). Even the best human-only doomsday virus is going to leave a huge number of us around.
Humans are not the last stepping stone in evolution. I say that because your post seems as if that's what you're thinking. Humans are evolving even as you're typing messages on this forum. However, in answer to your question; If humans were eliminated, would the evolve again .....and my answer is I don't know, but I would sure hope not for the sake of all other living things that humans kill and harm, including the planet itself. Baron Max
You don't even have an answer about something you are certain already happened but can say for sure that humans evolve as we type? That's interesting, when will we (not US personally) see this and what will a noticeable result be? Shouldn't we preserve our present likeness? But i cannot see how we would not be aware of it, for sure.
Because humans in their present form arrived by pure luck (whether good or bad luck is debatable). If you became a zygote again today, and grew up again in another family and another time, it would be unreasonable to expect you to be very similar to who you are today. Now just refine that experiment by postulating a different zygote too, and millions of years of life, having been 'brought up differently'. See?
And the above assumes, falsely, that even one creature would bee-bop along that even vaguely resembled humanity's closest common ancestor. Which in itself would take millions of years.
So what. First you are assuming the cahnge would take millions of years then you also assume rapid change. Dont you think that visible changes would be recordable and comparisons be made?
ita a war between two entities life and death one is saying you can live eternaly through producing and eeping alive the subject the other is saying no it can be eliminated by permanent sleep or death anti and plain matter
imagine one brains usuage per day if u could measure it out it would be stretched out over the world same as ahmm telephone wires in the world imagine everyone brain usuage measured together then stretched out in one line it would create a worm hole i call it M
i dunno bout maths or formula's but the answers are in giun powder and the CR and all my formula's i made my self were stolen the breaking down of plants and the animals and the CR and my M i have nothing to put on paper for u but to look at gun powder then you will know that what im saying i dont know your formula's cause i had to make my own up got books did my own work so id guess no one will prolly know what imyakkin bout but i do
china has been studying gun powder for alot longer than others and greeks have been studying gods for longer than anyone can member they have in museums a clay pot originaly held the white flickering thing like a bug that grew and caused devastation and there is a black flickering bug that caused goodness instead of looking at religeon i look at what their saying is pretty interesting and a jewish tribe believe their messiah is a woman and she cretes another world or planets and she comes back to help them and takes them to this new world very interseting how they study things scientists are learning now when its all there on rock or powder and in clay or whatever its on its there museums are really fun to go to and imagine any one can have a different answer to others but my idea of total wipe out is proly the oposite to devastation going by the greek myths life is hard to life and pain exists death has no pain to me and peace no wars no starvation guess everyone has an opinion on what erase means mine can go on and on but there is an end for everything nothing lives forever
Another intelligent species might evolve, but the likelyhood of humans evolving again is infinitesimal. The conditions that led to our evolution no longer exist. Evolution does not follow just one path. Consider the dinosaurs. For millions of years they ruled the earth. Then they died off. Have they evolved again? Will they? Very unlikely.
As soon as I see another T Rex walking around (millions of years after they went extinct) then I will think we will come back. Til then, NOPE!
Humans will NEVER evolve again, for the simple reason that we are the only species in the Homo genus left. If we were removed no species in the Homo genus would be left here to evolve into humans again. Even if a species evolve to look exactly like us and exactly as intelligent it wouldn't be humans. So the chance is ZERO.
