[AnotherUnixGeek]

With that line of reasoning, I wonder what humans are on their way to becoming? We're obviously in a transitional stage, on our way to becoming - what?

Something determined mostly by us. Though evolution brought us to where we are, our own technology (specifically, biotech and nanotech) and our own choices will have far more to do with what we become.

And there is no "transitional stage" for any species - evolution isn't a process of refinement or improvement, simply adaptation based on inherited traits and mutations.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

And there is no "transitional stage" for any species - evolution isn't a process of refinement or improvement, simply adaptation based on inherited traits and mutations.

I agree. I was just trying to following THEIR line of reasoning.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Something determined mostly by us. Though evolution brought us to where we are,"

Absolutely ZERO proof that we "evolved in any way. We are as we always have been.

[Delacon]

“Something determined mostly by us. Though evolution brought us to where we are, our own technology (specifically, biotech and nanotech) and our own choices will have far more to do with what we become.”

I liked your post. But I would like to point out that though we may have some more control than we’ve had in the past over “what we become”, we don’t have control over what genetics and our environment “allow” us to become. A teacher of mine predicts that the jaw will continue to get smaller and smaller as more people survive as a result of refined foods. And I ask you this, if we evolve to a level where everyone survives to an age of reproduction regardless of intelligence(or the level of intelligence of their parents) all the “positive” traits that we wish to come to pass through biotech and nanotech technology, won’t these advances be negated by an over abundance of stupid people. It sure seems to be driving evolutionary force already.

[Old Professer]

Breeding out or up, I wonder?