Question: Could humans ever be amphibious?

Asked by shadycactus6 to Arti, Chris, Dustin, James, Steven on 18 May 2012.

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  1. Photo: Dustin WelbourneDustin Welbourne
    answered on 18 May 2012:

    Hi shadycactus6

    If you mean amphibious in the biological sense then no. An amphibious animal is an animal that requires water as part of the reproductive cycle.

    But if you mean amphibious in the sense of living underwater as well as on land, then it is possible with technology and building underwater habitats, but it is cheaper to just live at surface.

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  2. Photo: Steven TingaySteven Tingay
    answered on 19 May 2012:

    Possible that an amphibious animal could evolve from humans, given enough time and the right evolutionary imperatives. But you would not be able to call it human.

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  3. Photo: Arti SinghArti Singh
    answered on 19 May 2012:

    Nice answer, Dustin.
    Shadycactus6, do you really want to live underwater? 🙂
    I guess it could be possible for humans to evolve into amphibious creatures if the conditions were correct/favourable, but I don’t know how likely that is because, in general, amphibious and terrestrial creatures have evolved from aquatic ones (so I don’t know if we would need to evolve in the ‘backwards’ direction).

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  4. Photo: James ByrneJames Byrne
    answered on 20 May 2012:

    Nicely answered Dustin 🙂

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Comments

  1. Photo: pnemonoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconiosispnemonoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconiosis
    commented on 18 May 2012:

    I think there is 4 locomotions arboreal, aquatic, aerial and terrestrial. Humans are terrestrial and also I think shadycactus6 was meaning could humans ever evolve into aquatic humanoids. But still a really nice answer Dustin

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