• Question: if we were evolved from apes, does that mean we are still evolving to an other type of animal or is the evolution stopped?

    Asked by anon-225169 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Good question! Evolution describes a very long process, which results from natural selection. An animal, plant or bacteria responds to changes in its environment in a random manner. Some of those changes are for the better, most are not seen or no good at all. Each little change, over time results in a new species.
      So have humans finished evolving.. who knows?

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I would say evolution is a continuous, albeit gradual process, so it certainly hasn’t stopped. I saw an article on Facebook the other day which shocked me so much it made me stop looking at my phone! Apparently our skulls are changing shape due to the amount of looking down at phones, tablets and laptops we are doing! I also know that our jaws have changed only fairly recently (within the last couple of hundred years) due to changes in our diets and I’m sure there are many other examples of skeletal changes. Does this mean we are becoming different versions of earlier humans or evolving into a new species altogether? I’m not sure but what I do know is I’m now limiting how much scrolling time I have!!

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