ydoaPs Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 in a few billion years, there should be a species (providing a lack of catastophes that wipe out all life) that is decendant from humans and has all of our culture and information plus some. would this species still be considered human? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Why wouldn't it be? We are only human because we call ourself human. If they call themselves human then they will be human. Of course they may decide not to call us human and make up a new name for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 16, 2005 Author Share Posted August 16, 2005 i don't see how it would become a new species unless different groups of humans were separated for long enough. but then again, i only have a basic understanding of high school bio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettina Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 i don't see how it would become a new species unless different groups of humans were separated for long enough. but then again, i only have a basic understanding of high school bio. I believe you will see just that in less than 100 years. There will be offshoots due to cloning "accidents". We will accidentally do something that will create a "different human". I don't know, but I see this happening. Bettina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I ould think you would have more of an issue when humans branch out to other planets, without the huge amount of cross breeding that takes place on earth, I would imangine a new species of human evolving on that planet quite quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucidDreamer Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Genetic engineering: The evolution of the future. I doubt they will call themselves human because they probably won't speak English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 why not? isn't the proportion of the population that speaks english growing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucidDreamer Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 why not? isn't the proportion of the population that speaks english growing? You said in a few billion years. Language changes over time. Just look at the difference between English today and language during Chaucher's(sp?) time. It wouldn't even be remotely similar 2 billion years from now unless they went to great lengths to keep the same language as today. I kind of doubt they would even talk as we do today anyways after 2 billion years. If you ran across our descendants of 2 billion years from now you might not even suspect they were once human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakuenso Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 why would they even talk? they would've probably evolved some technology that allows telopathic communication, language barriers would be gone forever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halucigenia Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 i don't see how it would become a new species unless different groups of humans were separated for long enough. but then again, i only have a basic understanding of high school bio.I think that the term you are looking for is Chronospecies A chronospecies is a species which is reproductively isolated from its relatives by existing in a different time period. A fossil line could be viewed as a number of chronospecies or as a continuously changing single species; the breakdown is therefore inevitably fuzzy.[/Quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 hey right now even english is being added to, for instance grok is now a word. The continual immigration of spanish speaking peoples to the united states should cause english (at least the american version) to add a couple of spanish phrases to itself, for instance I know a great many people who use adios for goodbye woot 300 posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 hey right now even english is being added to' date=' for instance grok is now a word. The continual immigration of spanish speaking peoples to the united states should cause english (at least the american version) to add a couple of spanish phrases to itself, for instance I know a great many people who use adios for goodbye woot 300 posts[/quote'] colloquial and formal are not the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 however slang usually makes its way into language after a certain period of time also grok is in websters dictionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 so is "aint"...what's your point? what does "grok" mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 my point is that language does evolve, and the english used in 100 years will be quite different than what we use today, just like elizabethan english is to us today. now grok however is a word that I would hesitate to give the definition, as it would significantly detract from one of the greatest literary works of all time IMHO stranger in a strange land. The book was extremely popular in the 1960's and its popularity resulted in people useing the word extensively and eventually in webster's admitting the word as part of the english language (the author created the word for the book). If your not interested in reading the book then I would suggest just hopping over to dictionary.com/wiktionary, or the dictionary of your choice to look it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glider Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I grok it. May you never thirst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 hahahaha, awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokele Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Let us grok Yourdad in fullness. ::gets out the cutlery:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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