Writer's Block: R/evolutionary war
Jan. 17th, 2010 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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“Take our place” as in “dominate the planet”? Yes. “Take our place” as in “dominate the planet with intelligence”? Probably not. Seems to me that nature doesn't try the same trick more than once: otherwise, we'd be as big as the dinosaurs. Their thing was immensity: once it failed, it wasn't tried again. So I figure the same would go for intellect.
Meaning that the next dominant lifeform would probably not be able to “learn from our successes and failures”...
“Take our place” as in “dominate the planet”? Yes. “Take our place” as in “dominate the planet with intelligence”? Probably not. Seems to me that nature doesn't try the same trick more than once: otherwise, we'd be as big as the dinosaurs. Their thing was immensity: once it failed, it wasn't tried again. So I figure the same would go for intellect.
Meaning that the next dominant lifeform would probably not be able to “learn from our successes and failures”...
