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Originally Posted by Strengthandhonour
I do disagree with the statement that men won't evolve further though.
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I actually believe that to be true. If you look at evolutionary processes, new species always appear in very small and isolated populations. Nowadays Globalisation and world wide communications makes it impossible for a human population to remain isolated, unless we're talking about some primitive tribes from the Amazon, New Guinea or somewhere else.
If human evolution still has some way to go, it must evolve at a world wide level, collectively, what would make it almost impossible, or at least it would make it very very slow.
Racial separation wouldn't change things a lot, as even the most isolated and fewer in number races (Australoids?), are made up by hundreds of thousands of individuals, while our ancestors, the last pre-Sapiens Homo rhodesiensis were probably not more than a few hundreds of individuals.
It would be interesting though, to see how the future eugentic programmes will affect human evolution, either accelerating it or definitely stopping it.