Evolutionists: Are humans still evolving? Is there any studies that show this?

We are all future transitional fossils. Everything is always evolving or becoming extinct.

at the beginning we did no longer evolve from apes. We and the apes developed from a typical ancestor. Which became probably very very such as an ape. Secondly, apes are nonetheless evolving! Given time, thousands and thousands of years, they might evolve into extra smart beings! some human beings used to think of black human beings in Africa have been evolving apes, yet no longer as some distance developed as us. (No kidding! they actually did! This became a justification for slavery.) some species have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years without changing in any respect. Alligators and crocodiles, working example, have been only a similar because of the fact the time of the dinosaurs. So why did no longer they evolve? there is area of evolutionary concept called 'punctuated equilibrium' that explains why area of a inhabitants evolves and area would not. the way it works (in accordance to the thought) is that a inhabitants of animals evolves to verify their environment. while they do, they stop changing because of the fact they are 'completely' developed for his or her environment. Then some team of those animals leave that environment--working example, the valley the place they stay is crowded so as that they migrate over the hills into the subsequent valley. the ambience there is diverse, so those few of those animals who're extra advantageous suited to the recent environment have an income, so as that they they start evolving lower back until they as quickly as extra attain 'equilibrium' with their new environment. So now you have 2 species, or subspecies, the place previously you had purely one. if fact be told this became what led Darwin to this concept in the 1st place. He visited the Galapagos Islands the place each island had a somewhat diverse variety of turtles, birds, etc., because of the fact the environments of those islands have been all somewhat diverse. meanwhile those crocodiles, who've been in equilibrium with their environment for all this time, have not replaced lots in 40 million years, because of the fact their environment hasn't replaced!

There is no reason to believe that humans are not still evolving. However the thing that drives it, natural selection, is bound to be affected by advances in medical technology, food production and availability and other factors. If it is still occurring it is happening where humanity began, Africa. It's the place with the highest birthrate and the poorest countries, meaning that natural evolutionary processes will be the least affected by modern living.

Yes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091023/hl_time/0859...

Thank you for being a more ration Xtian; I wish there were more that are willing to do their research before evangelizing to people who don't care. :)

I don't have the links to back up my claims; but evolution can be observed all the time in E-Coli. That's microevolution; Microevolution a whole bunch of times= macroevolution. It would take billions of years to observe macroevolution.

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Yes, we are.

The changes may be slow and gradual, but the predicted rates of change are no different from those observed elsewhere in nature, the researchers say. "The evolution that's going on in the Framingham women is like average rates of evolution measured in other plants and animals," said Stearns. "These results place humans in the medium-to-slow end of the range of rates observed for other living things," he added. "But what that means is that humans aren't special with respect to how fast they're evolving. They're kind of average."

Yes there are many in genetic journals, medical journals, etc. Here are just a few examples of traits that are measurably observed for evolution still occuring:

-Olfaction: the researchers found many genes important for taste and smell

-Reproduction: involved in things like sperm mobility and egg fertilization

-Increasing brain size

-Bone development and skeletal changes

-Carbohydrate metabolism: positive selection was observed for genes involved in breaking down mannose in Yorubans, sucrose in East Asians, and lactose for Europeans. (Mannose is a sweet secretion found in some trees and shrubs, sucrose is common table sugar, and lactose is a sugar found in milk.)

-Disease resistance and pathogen protection

-Metabolism of foreign compounds, such as exotic plant proteins or animal toxins

Read some of my sources.

Yes we are still evolving... the only "proof" i can give you is that over the last 2000 years humans have developed less body hair, have developed more virus susceptibilities and have grown taller...

But these quite often have variables.

Of course human beings are still evolving. If we weren't evolving then we would be devolving because nothing ever stays stagnant for very long.

sure but probably not in a visible way.

Evoloution helps a species adapt to better suit its environment to survive. so we dont need to be bigger or faster to survive. The next phase will phase out the appendix(in theory) as we no longer need this body part and it causes fatalities

1. People are taller.

2. We live longer.

3. We are beginning to lose unnecessary teeth - I myself don't have top wisdom teeth, my father never had wisdom teeth either.

4. We're getting smarter.

5. Europeans' development of lactose tolerance.

These are just my own uneducated observations.