Of course, I believe brains (or whatever stores the genetic stuff) take notes on their life and think of ways to adapt to their situation/environment, and when a baby (or plant, or whatever) is born these changes are made - but they're unnoticeable, they're like a ghost, not really there. And as the baby/plant/whatever progresses through life it does the same thing. Now supposing it doesn't travel miles upon miles away from where it's "parent" or "parents" lived, it should evolve toward the same evolutionary goals as it's parent(s) did. Sex complicates this concept, it's much simpler when we're talking about an asexual creature, but maybe the reason (most, I'm sure) animals have two sexes, i...

Of course, I believe brains (or whatever stores the genetic stuff) take notes on their life and think of ways to adapt to their situation/environment, and when a baby (or plant, or whatever) is born these changes are made - but they're unnoticeable, they're like a ghost, not really there. And as the baby/plant/whatever progresses through life it does the same thing. Now supposing it doesn't travel miles upon miles away from where it's "parent" or "parents" lived, it should evolve toward the same evolutionary goals as it's parent(s) did. Sex complicates this concept, it's much simpler when we're talking about an asexual creature, but maybe the reason (most, I'm sure) animals have two sexes, is to enhance the way genetic notes are passed on to their offspring, some way or somehow.

Considering humanity's current situation I imagine we will evolve with less and less muscle power as machines do more and more of the work for us, become dramatically more intelligent, become less or more naturally resistant to diseases depending on how well medications work, we may also become smaller and lighter as we lose the need for muscle as machines do all the work for us, we may become more or less mobile, we may live much, much longer.

We may be becoming dependant on technology not just in our day to day lives, but through evolution. We may evolve to take advantage of technology more and more. In the far off future, we may become frail, weak creatures, but incredibly intelligent ones too. We may someday have machines and computers do EVERY thing for us, we may reach a point where we no longer need to evolve, we no longer need to discover anything, we can't. What happens then?...