End of Evolution

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Biological Mapping

What starts off as tailored biomolecular treatments on humans to attack known diseases with personalized medicine and the transgenic hybridization of genes from multiple non-human species develops into efforts to patch-up suspect DNA to eliminate congenital conditions, grow replacement body parts and design counter-agents to all manner of viral and bacterial invasion. Once all the complex pathways by which molecules like DNA and proteins chemically interact to create and regulate the cellular life cycle are mapped out completely, the structure of the systemic interactions between cells and between all the different species of life in each biome will be modeled. At that point, science of the genome will be capable of biochemical engineering at such a comprehensive level that evolution will end.

Designed Progeny

Genetic assembly of the proteins, hormones and cells required to respond to biological interactions in all the types of ecosystems will eradicate diseases and eventually produce homeostasis in those ecosystems to the designed desire of humans. Humans will redesign the biology of all life around them including themselves, controlling not only susceptibility to environmentally caused illness, but also such features as beauty, strength, intelligence, height, weight and all the other desired characteristics of humanity. In this way, parents will select the traits of the children they have based upon any permutation of the combination of their own genome as well as the complete reservoir of human genetic traits.

Sexual selection will continue to be a component of procreation to ensure that children look like their parents, thus propelling a form of human evolution, but because of the capacity to pick and choose features beyond the phenotypes of just the parents, subsequent generations will take on a communal genetics unknown in any form of nature. Nature will ultimately become what humans want it to be... at least insofar as they are able to design all the species in the ecosystems they create. It is only due to the depth of life found throughout the expanse of Earth and the recesses of the planet from billions of years of expansion where anything akin to naturally evolving life will remain. Eventually, nearly everything undesirable among the biomes occupied humans will be rendered extinct and the remaining pathogens will be kept at bay by the life that is designed.

Homeostasis

Since this level of ecological mapping of all terrestrial biology will remain elusive for many millenia, natural biological science will continue to remain active in the identification, decomposition and reverse-engineering of natural organisms. Biomolecular machinery will be designed that is necessary to fight newly discovered diseases and humans will continue to need treatments for unknown diseases from time to time. But, the list of known antibodies will continue to grow not only in the scientific database but also in the immune systems of humans through these treatments. Including, and most importantly, those treatments which are necessary to combat the degradation of the human genome itself from time, entropy and cosmic forces.

Once people begin to settle throughout the stars, efforts to counteract the forces of physical entropy from radiation, cosmic rays, gravitational variance and a variety of other cosmic phenomena will result in more robust genetic engineering and new biological therapies. Space born generations will find themselves not only on planets where a homeostasis has been designed for their habitation but harboring biomes capable of counteracting their non-terrestial environments. Their biological systems will thus reflect the traits they wish to have, the needs they have as living systems to combat the degradations of time and how they wish to live optimally on the types of environments crafted for them by terraforming operations.

Agelessness

Due to human’s understanding of the complexity of the human biological system and control over the biomes they make for themselves, they will not only be unaffected by pathogens, cancer, parasites and other features of age, they will also eventually cease to age at all. The techniques used to regulate any system of biochemical interactions will eventually regulate the process of aging by eliminating the systemic causes for it. So, the progeny of mankind will eventually become ageless, set at the level of biological age each individual desires for herself.