The human race will eventually die off?

[QUOTE="Oleg_Huzwog"]

It's true. Hooking up with someone of my own race is just like scoring with my cousin.

martinX3X

Well, every species has to die...

Your teacher is getting alot of south park!

Is this your teacher?

That's an interesting theory. But I don't think it works like that

Your teacher doesnt sound very well educated, or he/she is pushing another agenda?

Nope, your teacher is just stupid.

I feel the world will be destoryed before we as a race have time to die off.

It's true we all share a ancestor and that many people are long lost cousins, usually tenth+ cousins but I honestly don't think it'll be the end of the human race.

Aren't all humans related to each other?tekken220

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

i have a feeling that TC might be misconstruing what his teacher said, but if that IS, in fact, what his teacher said, she sounds stupid.

So today at school my teacher said that in the future, humans will have mixed so much that everyone will look the same. Then, because their isn't much genetic variety, it will be like having babies with a cousin or sister. Then the babies will be deformed and wont be able to reproduce and eventually the population will decrease since hardly any humans are being made and then we will become extinct.

Is this true?

If so, that would suck to be in the last generation of humans.

martinX3X

Your teacher sounds pretty stupid... Inbreeding factor goes down as the population increases... And it doesn't matter how much traits increase or decrease... By the time we reach that point it will be mostly DOMINANT traits that are common to everyone, not recessive like in the case of inbreeding, so if anything humans will be born MORE PERFECT since mostly dominant appealing genes will be involved in their creation... Not to mention the fact that we are on the cusp of genetic engineering related to child birthing... So far in the future it will probably be standard practice...

He or she was right about dying off though... One way or another our race will eventually either destroy itself or die off of natural causes... We can't travel faster than light, so we are pretty much constrained to this solar system until we develop a way to travel in space for decades... Which probably won't be anytime soon... One wrong move and our species can end at any time......

Is this your teacher?

Fandangle

woooooooooooooooooooooooo

This is a absurd theory.. sSubZerOo

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]This is a absurd theory.. Crimsader

No.. There is entirely too many people to ever make that fear.. You do understand that we all came from a common ancestor? Instead of dieing out from inbreeding, man only diversified further.. We have far far more concerns of the world ending than anything coming to this ridiculous concern.. We have more to fear of the collapse of our eco system. Nuclear wear, gamma ray burst, meteor strikes, etc etc.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]This is a absurd theory.. Crimsader

your wish came true.

So today at school my teacher said that in the future, humans will have mixed so much that everyone will look the same. Then, because their isn't much genetic variety, it will be like having babies with a cousin or sister. Then the babies will be deformed and wont be able to reproduce and eventually the population will decrease since hardly any humans are being made and then we will become extinct.

Is this true?

If so, that would suck to be in the last generation of humans.

martinX3X

Actually everyone's (for the most part) genetic code is completley different. But there actually extreme rarities where they're people with the same code. Extremley rare but it has occured. Breeding with anyone outside people closely related to you just creates more variation. With more variation comes stronger immune systems that are more resistant to disease, as well as the slow mutation of body structure that will over-time change the way the human race operates most likely for the better.

your teachers full of #$%^ because the only way you can possibly have deformed babies is ifsomthing goes wrong during pregnancy and the only way it look like ur family members is if you did have sex with ur family members!

and then again that wont even make the human race die it make it bigger

but 2012/dec/21 we shall see

Unless we start giving a crap about space exploration, there is a change we will go extinct or darn close to some natural disaster.

So today at school my teacher said that in the future, humans will have mixed so much that everyone will look the same. Then, because their isn't much genetic variety, it will be like having babies with a cousin or sister. Then the babies will be deformed and wont be able to reproduce and eventually the population will decrease since hardly any humans are being made and then we will become extinct.

Is this true?

If so, that would suck to be in the last generation of humans.

martinX3X

Your teacher is an idiot.

if we all came from the same descents then we can only become more diverse not less...

I find it hard to believe that mass inbreeding will be the end of humanity, odds are it will be destroyed in some other way before that even happens, if it ever does(could).SaintLeonidas

I agree with this.

Is this your teacher?

Fandangle

So by breeding In a way which is designed to create Genetic diversity, we are really just doing the opposite...

wut???

Can I meet your teacher?

Can I ask which country/state you are from?

The Human race has, thusfar, proven to be the single largest threat to the integrity and over-all well-being of this planet... if Earth is to have any hope at all, people must be eradicated like plague from it's surface...67gt500

So today at school my teacher said that in the future, humans will have mixed so much that everyone will look the same. Then, because their isn't much genetic variety, it will be like having babies with a cousin or sister. Then the babies will be deformed and wont be able to reproduce and eventually the population will decrease since hardly any humans are being made and then we will become extinct.

Is this true?

If so, that would suck to be in the last generation of humans.

martinX3X

So today at school my teacher said that in the future, humans will have mixed so much that everyone will look the same. Then, because their isn't much genetic variety, it will be like having babies with a cousin or sister.

martinX3X

I believe it's pretty much well known in science circles that the human genome has very little variety anyway between all the different races - and the current theory is that the human race almost became extinct some time in the distant past, with as low as 10,000 remaining on the planet - probably due to some natural disaster. That is the only way they can account for such a lack of genetic diversity among us. I'd hunt up the relevant articles, but that's what Google's for, so do your own research on this.

Therefore, your teacher's theory just does not hold any water. Because if there were as few as 10,000 humans in the past, and there are 6+ billion of us now, it simply does not add up that a lack of genetic diversity will lead to our extinction.

A far more worrying issue, in my view, is the increasing occurrence of low fertility, miscarriages and premature births among our species. If these trends were to continue, then I think we would have something more serious to worry about.

As for the future of the human race, we will continue to evolve and adapt to our environment, so in a million years we'll be something quite different. The human race as we are now will probably not exist, but that is the natural order of things, and we'll all be dust anyway. So why worry?

If humans are to die off, I think a likely scenario is that natural disasters (whether on Earth or from space; e.g. asteroids) will get humans before they have a chance to transfer from Earth.

[QUOTE="67gt500"]The Human race has, thusfar, proven to be the single largest threat to the integrity and over-all well-being of this planet... if Earth is to have any hope at all, people must be eradicated like plague from it's surface...ThePlothole

We can't physically destroy the earth. We can change the eco system around it, making it hostile to humans and life in general.. And thats about it.

It is laughable that anyone, much less someone responsible for educating others, actually thinks that Mankind would exist long enough for that to happen. In reality we are going to kill ourselves off either by inventing our own demise or in some fantastic and devastating future War event.

Well if you have dominant genes then through time their expression among humanity will increase, but the recessive genes will by then have their own nice spread throughout humanity, they just aren't expressed. So you will have recessive and dominant genes in most possible combinations in humanity. Maybe people will start to look more alike each other as in their dominant genes expression, but even that... There are quite a few mutations within each generation. And what genes are favorable in our human societies change too. The complexity of our gene pool is pretty amazing.

There was a mathematical theory about this. When you build a house out of toothpicks, the more toothpicks you add to the construction generally speaking add to the complexity of the house, and be more unstable. The more unstable the more likely it is to change. There is a much bigger chance for such an unstable structure to change or collapse into higher coherence (so into something better) than into self-destruction or chaos. So sadly for people with depressions, this world is moving in a very positive way.

[QUOTE="ThePlothole"][QUOTE="67gt500"]The Human race has, thusfar, proven to be the single largest threat to the integrity and over-all well-being of this planet... if Earth is to have any hope at all, people must be eradicated like plague from it's surface...sSubZerOo

We can't physically destroy the earth. We can change the eco system around it, making it hostile to humans and life in general.. And thats about it.

So today at school my teacher said that in the future, humans will have mixed so much that everyone will look the same. Then, because their isn't much genetic variety, it will be like having babies with a cousin or sister. Then the babies will be deformed and wont be able to reproduce and eventually the population will decrease since hardly any humans are being made and then we will become extinct.

Is this true?

If so, that would suck to be in the last generation of humans.

martinX3X

Have you not seen south park future?

No but 4real that is possible but it will never come to that with humans. inbreeding is verdy bad in some species

i can't believe that one. How the human race will end will come from a man made/natural disaster...

look at Japan all that radiation... is going effect the people who get more with the radiation it will destroy and change the Genes in people who is effected.

Your teacher's so smart.mayforcebeyou

[QUOTE="mayforcebeyou"]Your teacher's so smart.curono

In like three billion years.

If we haven't figured out how to get to another solar system in three billion years, then we deserve to go extinct. :P

[QUOTE="mayforcebeyou"]Your teacher's so smart.curono

Yes that is true when the sun dies all life on earth as we know it will also go because all life as a connection to the sun some how. Every plant will die without the light= rest of life will die from lack of oxygen. Yes slow people fish needs oxygen to. put gold fish in a bag and leave it in it and see what happens...

BUT the question is will humans last that long? I'm sure some life will be around when that happens.

The sun is a star and we know stars die. prediction when that happen is 5-10 billion years. Humans only have been around 3-4 million years... Can we last that long without killing Our self's or mother natural takes us out by massive floods extreme weather. Will we build Massaive Ark space ships and get off of earth before that?

Fun day whom ever is alive when the end of the world/life/solar system comes... In a way i hope i don't miss it lol