What are some ways in which humans may be influencing the evolution of mankind and other organisms

Numerous examples of this human-induced contemporary evolution have been reported in a number of ‘contexts’, including hunting, harvesting, fishing, agriculture, medicine, climate change, pollution, eutrophication, urbanization, habitat fragmentation, biological invasions and emerging/disappearing diseases. Although numerous papers, journal special issues and books have addressed each of these contexts individually, the time has come to consider them together and thereby seek important similarities and differences. The goal of this special issue, and this introductory paper, is to promote and expand this nascent integration. We first develop predictions as to which human contexts might cause the strongest and most consistent directional selection, the greatest changes in evolutionary potential, the greatest genetic (as opposed to plastic) changes and the greatest effects on evolutionary diversification.

Through the theory of the survival of the fittest, scientist have proven that species evolve from other species by adapting to the environment. Because of evolution, humans have a common ancestry with apes and only became a different organism by adapting and developing features to survive in new environments. Because environments have drastically changed from apes transitioning to apes, this could affect future organisms as mankind could develop features not suited to a natural environment