How does evolution affect human race?

Answer 1

We cannot be sure of that because evolution has never been observed. And since it is a theory, it cannot be proven, even though plenty of evidence exists that it does occur. In addition, since it is so difficult to observe happing in real life, instead of just fossils, its affect on us humans is very hard to measure or even speculate.

One area where there is a hint of what the effect of evolution may be can be observed in bacteria. Though they do not actually evolve into a new species, we can see them change in how they adapt to antibiotics. Some strains of staph, or staphylococcus, have grown so resistant that they have become a danger to us because we cannot use antibiotics to stop them.

At the other end of the scale we have the example of the cockroaches. They are so superbly evolved to survive that they have hardly changed at all in millions of years. It has been said that if we ever have a nuclear war, they may be the only living animals left because they can live in high levels of radiation.

So maybe the answer to what impact evolution has on us today is that there are animals that may actually survive better than can.

Answer 2

Contrary to what some religious types would have us believe, evolution has an extraordinary effect on the plants and animals that live on earth. There are some very simple, very inescapable facts associated with this planet and life on it. The earth has been here for billions of years, and for much of that time, there was life on it. The earth was not always the way it is now; it has undergone the most profound changes throughout the millenia of its existence. Life, however it came to exist, has undergone the most profound changes as well. As the earth evolved and changed, conditions that supported life changed. The life that was here was forced to change with it, with those changes in the conditions on the earth. And if it couldn't, it died. Life changed, it evolved. Nothing could be more simple. Evolution as it is presented in modern evolutionary synthesis is a fact. It isn't a theory any more. Be clear that evolution does not say how life came to be, but speaks to the changes it has undergone. There is something else to take note of. The facts do not support the theory of evolution. It's the other way around. The theory of evolution explainsthe facts. There are a zillion facts, and evolution ties them together. That's why modern evolutionary synthesis is considered fact and is taught as such in science classes. Wikipedia has some information about modern evolutionary systhesis posted under the article of the same name. Need a link? Got one for ya.

Answer 3

New species arose, and old species became extinct. Without evolution the earth will still team with self replicating strands of RNA, or whatever it was that preceded the earliest prokaryotic cells.

Without evolution, jawed marine vertebrates such as sarcopterygian lungfish would never have evolved into amphibians. Amphibians would not have evolved into reptiles or reptile-like mammals. Dinosaurs would not have evolved into birds. Miocene primates would not have evolved into the ancestors of our species.

Answer 4

Organisms (beings of life) evolve in some part to adapt to their environment to better survive. Humans are originally from Northern Africa. There were a variety of traits that humans had there to be better suited for their environment such as dark skin but as many humans emigrated to different parts of the world, some of these racial traits weren't as practical so different physical traits emerged. It's not that the different races of humanity are very different from each other as two people from different races can genetically share more in common than two people of the same race. Non-Africans are not more evolved than Africans but some of their racial traits developed later than Africans because of the obstacles that they faced when entering unfamiliar environments like Europe and Asia. Be careful not to misinterpret this racial evolution as way of justifying elitism like the Nazis attempted to do. We are all people and we should embrace these racial differences as something to be proud of as greater genetic diversity means a richer gene pool.

Answer 5

Because we are the products of natural selection, sexual selection gene flow and genetic drift. We are evolving as we speak as evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organism. Will we speciate? Evolution is a poor predictor of the future. All our parasites are evolving and coevolving with us down through the ages. All of Biology is predicated on evolution and the theory that explains much about evolution and we are part of that unity and diversity of life whether we like it or believe it.

Answer 6

Darwin's Theory of Evolution really did not affect society or the daily life of the people. The only people really affected were scientists.

Answer 7

Evolution of organisms gives them the opportunity to adapt, through subtle biochemical changes, to changes in an organism's immediate environment.

Answer 8

Evolution affects human health. Evolution is the need of the hour.