• Question: Is it possible that the human will evolve any other body parts or organs in the future?

    Asked by emziemzy to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 2 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      Very very very unlikely, unless there was some disease which we couldn’t cure and it affected nearly everyone at the beginning of their 20s and survival depended on this strange new organ. But other than that, it’s unlikely, unless we did it using technology.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      The future is a very long time, so I think that our evolution to this extreme must be inevitable, unless we become extinct (much more likely).

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I don’t know. There’s not any environmental factor that’s currently causing mass extinction of humans, so I can’t see a reason why we’d evolve new body parts. We might evolve to need less Oxygen from the air or something like that if global warming continues, but even that’s a bit far-fetched, I think.

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