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How will existing animals evolve?
Topic Started: Jun 9 2015, 07:39 PM (672 Views)
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I've noticed that for seabirds, seagulls seem to spend plenty of time inland. With the increasing urbanisation from humans, there aren't many places left were they are able to exist in their most ideal habitat. So I theorise that they will become more like urban pigeons. They will shrink in size, their beaks will blunt, their feathers will dull and they will lose their webbed feet.

How do you think other species will change?


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The gulls here get on fine, in fact I don't think they could live without thrown away chips, crisps and whatever else they can get their beaks on.

Barely ever see any going for worms these days and besides the fact this town is next to the sea they're basically never there, always around the highstreet or houses.
My aunt has a "pet" one called Charlie that visits her for food.

I'm not sure how animals will change over the years but I expect that the ones that won't mingle with the urbanization of the planet will just...die I guess.
I think eventually we won't tolerate other animals that don't, besides tasty animals. That's if we don't just live on synthetic meat.
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Honestly believe humans will gain some sort of "Super Power". Notice the "". Probably a faster or more better technology body.

I also believe certain animals will start talking.. human.
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Honestly believe humans will gain some sort of "Super Power". Notice the "". Probably a faster or more better technology body.

I also believe certain animals will start talking.. human.
What's your basis for the second one? Are there signs of that happening?
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If anything, humans will devolve in terms of physicality. We're spending an increasing amount of time inside and just generally becoming less active (as a general rule).
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Jun 9 2015, 07:39 PM
I've noticed that for seabirds, seagulls seem to spend plenty of time inland. With the increasing urbanisation from humans, there aren't many places left were they are able to exist in their most ideal habitat. So I theorise that they will become more like urban pigeons. They will shrink in size, their beaks will blunt, their feathers will dull and they will lose their webbed feet.

How do you think other species will change?
I think you're onto something regarding seagulls man. At every local mall in my home city you'll find flocks of them loitering around, picking up food scraps and hanging around shopfront cafes and s***! Very possible this is already happening!

Edit: they hang out at schools as well. All over the Ovals! They're very much becoming inland birds. Still heaps by the ocean though. They're just heading to wherever the food is
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Honestly believe humans will gain some sort of "Super Power". Notice the "". Probably a faster or more better technology body.

I also believe certain animals will start talking.. human.
If the super power you're referring to is called 'Dad-bod' then I agree with you.

I can't really imagine most animals evolving much further than what they are right now. For example a dog has been a pet in many parts of the world for centuries. In the UK and America, people keep them as pets and they depend on their owners to take care of them. Before they became a domestic animal they probably hunted and were independent like how wolves are.

The same goes for things like cows or horses. Cows are being bred for meat so they are a certain way to provide that for the food economy. Horses are the way they are because people breed them for racing or whatever. I don't feel like those animals can evolve from that.
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Every animal can evolve if you have the right circumstances. With dogs, cats, horses and cattle, we did it ourselves through selective breeding but nature can force anything to change.

I can actually see cats and dogs developing language skills. They're already more vocal than their wild counterparts. Bipedal walking might very well become a possibility as well. Purely because cats and dogs are constantly on their hind legs trying to reach for food on high surfaces.


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I don't think that they're on hind legs often enough for that to happen though... there has been objects and surfaces for a heck of a long time, that's nothing new and they can't walk on two legs. Due to the fact that humans can give and take away those things, there isnt an evolutionary requirement for a dog or a cat to walk around on two legs.

Additionally, I've never seen or heard a dog or a cat make a noise that even remotely sounds like talking. To talk you need to be able to use your tongue to create the sound of words. When a dog barks its just a gruff noise, they don't use their teeth or tongue to do anything like talking and neither do cats.
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Dogs have different types of barks for different situations. They have one for announcing where they are, one to warn others away, even one that says they are in a group. It's very similar to how chimpanzees and early hominids used sounds to communicate what the situation was. Not as complex of course. What's interesting is that wolves and wild dogs don't do this.

As for cats. They also have a series of different sounds for different situations. They can't project their calls for miles around like dogs can but they do have noises for close proximity. And purring is something that only domestic cats do and only around humans.

And yes the hind legs thing is a long shot. But sometimes evolution takes millions of years for something noticeable like that to happen and we've only had them domesticated for about 40,000 years. So it's a long way to go yet.


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Jun 9 2015, 08:07 PM
Honestly believe humans will gain some sort of "Super Power". Notice the "". Probably a faster or more better technology body.
Yeah I agree. Once we get immortality and nanomachines down soon will come the age of enhanced humans.

I wonder how that will change our species? Like eventually if we had nanomachines augmenting our abilities...could we be born with them?


As for talking many birds do a good job. Not sure about stuff like dogs talking their skill is in that they can understand us, most of the time better than we understand them.
I expect they'll get smarter and smarter, able to read sign language easily and stuff.

It'll be funny if that happens and the average dog becomes smarter than the average teenager :rofl: honestly I don't think that's too far off :lol:


I don't think dogs will evolve to be bipedal, they have no need for it being bipedal isn't helpful to them it gives them the speed and agility they need to be useful to us and through that they get the care and attention they need to live, their quadrupedal nature is pretty much perfect for them bipedal would make them slow and useless give them hands too and they're just be weird canine monkey type things.

I'd want one but they wouldn't have much use...though I'd imagine we'd make them in to servants and stuff.
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There'd eventually be a civil rights movement for the dogs though, if they're sentient and can feel pretty much all the things humans can anyway. Making them servants wouldn't exactly be the best of ideas since they'd eventually revolt. Then we look like the bad guys.
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enough so that we can breed w/ them, i hope!
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Jun 9 2015, 11:31 PM
enough so that we can breed w/ them, i hope!
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Not to bring another question into this, but I feel it's appropriate. How do we know that we aren't reaching a limit on technology? All the theories of life on other planets and consciousness in robots have the unquestion assumption that Human technology will rapidly advance like it always has. What if we are on the brink of our human and technological limitations.
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