• Question: If humans evolve, will we be perfect? (No illnesses)

    Asked by lambrw01 to Carol, Ellie, John, Philip, Rebecca on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Rebecca Lacey

      Rebecca Lacey answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I don’t think it is possible to be perfect unfortunately 🙁

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      Eleanor Turpin answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      It’s unlikely because lots of the germs that make us ill, like bacteria and parasites, are also evolving so can find ways of getting round of defenses.

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      Philip Glasson answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Surly…. yours is a question evolved to Perfection !

      Now forgive me as I awkwardly attempt to answer it with my less than perfect literacy (……….its Friday)

      We have quite successfully and continuously improving our life expectancy from 30 to 60 to 80 years on average now I believe, but we have done this mainly with our technology. The advancement of our technology is much faster than the speed we evolve at, so if we ever get there (no illness), I think it will be our technology that archives it first.

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      John Welford answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I agree with Phil, science and technology (medicine, surgery, etc) is making changes to our lives faster than evolution now. As a species I think we are already very very good at what we do, that’s why there are so many of us.

      I think we suffer less from illness now that at any point previously in our history, so things are definitely improving, will we will ever get down to absolutely zero illnesses… probably not, as there will always be other things evolving to attack us!

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      Carol White answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I think everyone else has already said most of what I thought of!

      One example of not beng perfect: the more we use antibiotics to solve everything, the more likely it is that a resistant strain of bacteria will emerge and wipe out large numbers of people.

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