Many researchers believe that the evolution of modern humans has stopped. But this phenomenon may be less about survival and more about reproductive success in the current environment. Changes in gene frequency due to factors such as cultural preferences, geographic migration, and even random events continue to shape the human genome.
Experts have given their predictions on how evolution may affect the human species in 50,000 years, Newsweek writes . "Evolution is partly deterministic - there are rules for the development of systems - and partly random - mutations and environmental changes are mostly unpredictable. In some rare cases, we can observe evolution in action, but for tens or hundreds of years, this is mostly an assumption," said Thomas Meilund, associate professor of bioinformatics at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Jason Hodgson, an anthropologist and evolutionary geneticist at Anglia Ruskin University in England, said 50,000 years is an "extremely long period" in human evolution, representing more than 1,667 human generations, given a 30-year generation time. "Over the last 50,000 years, most of the variations seen among human populations have evolved. This includes skin color, physique, hair color and texture, etc.
In fact, most of the variations we are familiar with have evolved even within the last 10,000 years," the anthropologist said. Hodgson predicts that in the near future, global populations will become more homogeneous and less structured when it comes to.
