How Mobile Apps Have Influenced Human Evolution

Aug 18
16:37

2019

Harnil Oza

Harnil Oza

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App development has evolved very rapidly over a tiny time frame compared with the 35,000 years that modern man has inhabited the Earth.

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Apps can allow us to do things that our ancestors would have claimed were the acts of gods or witches. Man has evolved mentally and physically as a result of the efforts of mobile app developers working at top app development companies.

 

The concept may be difficult to accept but the evidence is clear that people who use mobile apps have evolved to be just slightly different from people who do not use mobile apps. The history of human evolution shows that new developments can be very rapid in terms of time or can take thousands of years to occur.

 

A modern example of evolution can help illustrate the evolutionary impact of app development and mobile app developers. The bacteria that have produced diseases in man have existed for millions of years longer than man. Early man was immune to many of the disease producing bacteria due to exposure and the death of those individuals who were susceptible to the detrimental effects of the bacteria.

 

The development of antibiotics in 1940 was thought to be a revolutionary cure for all manner of disease that injured,How Mobile Apps Have Influenced Human Evolution Articles crippled, or killed humans. The disease producing bacteria rapidly fought back. Disease producing bacteria evolved to be impervious to the antibiotics. The world now has to cope with antibiotic resistant flu, pneumonia, and venereal diseases. This change happened in 60 years.

 

Similar changes in people who use mobile apps have been seen in the 20 years that mobile apps and their earliest ancestors have existed. Younger people in particular have adopted the use of mobile apps and have evolved unique abilities that their parents do not have. This is a fact and not science fiction.

 

A study that compared the brain firing rate of visual neurons between mobile app users and people who did not use mobile apps has shown that the brains of app users fire faster in response to a visual stimulus. The response time difference was measured using magnetic resonance imaging. The difference in speed could be as great as five times depending on the individual.

 

A similar study involving the speed of motor neuron response in mobile app users showed a definite increase in the rate that a person’s fingers can respond to the visual cues from an app. The rate increase correlated to the amount of time that a person used a mobile app.

 

These two experiments and several more indicate that the brain of mobile app users has changed due to the use of mobile apps. The changes all appear to be beneficial to the person at this point in time. The change is speed of perception and speed of manual response has also been observed in children who play video games on their mobile devices.

 

This is the first documented instance of mobile app developers producing a change in human evolution. The consensus of opinion at present is that the changes in the brain of mobile app users will be inherited by their children. There is no data that shows the changes in the human brain will be reversed if a person stops using mobile apps.