I doubt humans will live to see it. Evolution is a very slow process, and nothing will evolve if there isn't a need for it. Dolphins, for example, are doing decently as a species. Natural selection cannot eliminate the dolphins that have a lower level of intelligence, as intelligence doesn't carry too much of an advantage.
Dolphins are doing just fine as they are, so they will not change. Nothing will change until there's a need for it.
That's a decent point but it doesn't really have the possibility to be backed by evidence. We've only been able to come up with theories like these for the past few hundred years or so, that's not long enough to make a definitive statement. Us as human beings didn't need to evolve from living in caves and hunting and gathering, yet are intelligence continued to grow rapidly, in remarkable time. In several thousand years we went from living in huts and shacks and stone buildings to where we are now, and not entirely out of necessity.
As for your point of view, LifeOfGaming, Human's are a very versatile species, I don't think we'll die off that easily, we will do what we have to do to survive, even if it isn't pretty.
[Edited by fault2k, 5/1/2010 1:55:56 PM]
I doubt we will.
The way we treat our planet now, I'll bet sentient species frown upon us and look somewhere else.
Unless we start taking care of this Earth, it will barely make it past the year 3000. Heck, it could die out before then. With all of our factories releasing the toxins, the oil rig off the coast of Louisiana (which has sprung a third leak underwater and, for some ridiculous reason, cannot be mended to at this time), and all of the species that are endangered are in the biggest threat of the world.
Not to mention, my generation of people, with all the obesity, will most likely die off before our parents. I'm not obese or even overweight. But for those of you that are, Death is staring you in the face. Mocking you.
At the same time, maybe those sentient species will help us out some. If they're not hostile. But they have every reason to be. Don't you agree?
**By sentient species, I mean space aliens.
[Edited by LifeOfGaming, 5/1/2010 1:47:53 PM]
We can't kill our planet, to think we can is arrogant.
We can kill ourselves off, we can kill other species, but the Earth will just shrug us off and continue without us.