Planet of the ......

[Twilight Hue]

Who's next in line for sapience and eventual dominance?

I'm thinking Orangutans. They already have cell phones. One up from the Octopus yet they could excell at multitasking. ;0)

https://psmag.com/environment/planet-octopuses-animal-species-likely-rise-overthrow-humans-67576

 

[Jesster]

Planet of the spiders!

 

[Revoltingest]

Who's next in line for sapience and eventual dominance?

I'm thinking Orangutans. They already have cell phones. One up from the Octopus yet they could excell at multitasking. ;0)

https://psmag.com/environment/planet-octopuses-animal-species-likely-rise-overthrow-humans-67576

We'd have to genetically engineer octopuses with
much longer lives, to see their true learning potential.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Planet of the spiders!

I could imagine a world covered in cobwebs. ;0)

 

[Twilight Hue]

We'd have to genetically engineer octopuses with
much longer lives, to see their true learning potential.

What is amazing about Octopuses is they can crawl out of water for limited periods of time.

 

[Revoltingest]

What is amazing about Octopuses is they can crawl out of water for limited periods of time.

And some can even drive....

 

[Quintessence]

The idea of dominant species is a myth. It's a story told by those who tend to think hierarchically rather than in terms of networks and relationships. It bears its truths, but also its falsehoods. Not being a heirarchical thinker - I'm too much an ecologist for that - I don't accept that any species is dominant whether we're talking past, present, or future. All organisms have dependencies.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The idea of dominant species is a myth. It's a story told by those who tend to think hierarchically rather than in terms of networks and relationships. It bears its truths, but also its falsehoods. Not being a heirarchical thinker - I'm too much an ecologist for that - I don't accept that any species is dominant whether we're talking past, present, or future. All organisms have dependencies.

True yet I see dominance in the context by way of an evoultionary sliding scale where advantage takes precedence.

 

[sun rise]

Having something displace us to me can make for great science fiction but I am interested in human evolution not human displacement.

 

[Kuzcotopia]

Who's next in line for sapience and eventual dominance?

A strain of Ebola probably.

 

[Quintessence]

True yet I see dominance in the context by way of an evoultionary sliding scale where advantage takes precedence.

Could you unpack that a bit for me? It sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I follow the nuances of what you intend to get at here.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Having something displace us to me can make for great science fiction but I am interested in human evolution not human displacement.

Sometimes what was once science fiction, comes true. ;0)

But I do see how it seems unplausable givin the required time for evoultionary change to alter nature's course.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Could you unpack that a bit for me? It sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I follow the nuances of what you intend to get at here.

It's just that evolutionary adaptation never really ceases as conditions change enough for organisms to reach the next stage of development. I think a number of apes and other life can be regarded as smarter and more innovative than their predecessors.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

I could imagine a world covered in cobwebs. ;0)

Here is a really big community spider web home to millions of spiders. It's in Texas of course.

 

[BSM1]

Who's next in line for sapience and eventual dominance?

I'm thinking Orangutans. They already have cell phones. One up from the Octopus yet they could excell at multitasking. ;0)

https://psmag.com/environment/planet-octopuses-animal-species-likely-rise-overthrow-humans-67576

I have a brother-in-law who, through an experience at a traveling fair as a young man, can attest to the fact that they (Orangutans) are hellacious boxers...just sayin'.

 

[Quintessence]

Here is a really big community spider web home to millions of spiders. It's in Texas of course.

That just made my day with "woah" awesomeness!

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Raccoons. They already have inquisitive minds, persistent attitudes, and appendages that are good for manipulating things.

 

[Flame]

Crab People!