Far Future Evolution

Predicting the future is a mug’s game, but I’ma do it anyway! It’s not like I’ll be around in a billion years to be corrected.

There are trends to evolution (even if only statistical artifacts ala Steven Jay Gould) and I think I can project these into the future:

Increasing diversity (lots and lots of different birds)

Decreasing disparity (they are all descended from the English sparrow)

Conquest of low-productivity areas (more life in deep oceans, deserts, mountain-tops, the Earth’s crust, the air, low earth orbit