Blennies...our ancestors?

[thinktank]

Here's a short article on the evolution of blennies in the wild and how the pressures for them to go on land to avoid predation could have led to the evolution of true amphibians and eventually mammals.

In short: Blennies could be our ancestors.

Next time you look into your tank (if you have blennies), say, "Hello grandpa!" lol

http://www.sciencealert.com/these-fish-are-evolving-to-live-on-land-to-escape-predators

 

[wkscott]

They probably are and too bad that human sensibility hasn't evolved as quickly as our physical form.

 

[thinktank]

They probably are and too bad that human sensibility hasn't evolved as quickly as our physical form.

I think humans are in a transition mode. It could be argued that all species are in a transition mode to the next variation of that species, but there have been marked periods throughout evolution where something changed drastically and it resulted in great changes to either the environment or the species, or both.

I believe that we are living in one of those drastic time periods. Something has caused a very intelligent species to develop (humans) and the world and it's species weren't ready for it. I believe this because only humans have our level of intelligence.

When it comes to all other species, you see various types of the same basic families of life forms, with mostly equivalent levels of intelligence and capabilities. For example, you have gorillas and you have other smaller primates. They are different species, with very different physiology, but their overall intelligence and capabilities are mostly the same or close. Humans, on the other hand, seem to have exploded from primates in terms of intelligence. We are in a class all our own with nothing to compete with us, in terms of intelligence.

This explosion of intelligence is having a giant effect on all the species of the earth, as your cartoon shows so well.

Give it another 100,000 years. When humans have continued to evolve into other species and other species have evolved greater intelligence.

It makes no evolutionary sense that only one species has the level intelligence we do and that it will stay this way forever. All species have variants of themselves. Humans are the only ones without it, which is evidence of the intelligence explosion that has resulted in us.

We humans, in our current state, are just a temporary blip or glitch in the evolutionary chain. Eventually things will balance out, the fittest will survive, and competition for intelligence will increase.

Just my 2 cents on the issue.

 

[Humblefish]

I guess to me a life is a life is a life. Our self importance is the only thing which makes human life more valued than that of an ant. All life should be respected and protected.

 

[thinktank]

I guess to me a life is a life is a life. Our self importance is the only thing which makes human life more valued than that of an ant. All life should be respected and protected.

Agreed. We only value life because we have the brain capacity to do so. And what makes our lives so valuable? It seems to be, mostly, because of what humans are capable of. We know what we feel, what we can do for others, and the influence we can have on each others' lives and that of the entire earth.

When is the last time a single ant was able to kill off millions of its own kind and destroy millions of acres of wildlife? Humans, on the other hand, have this great capacity, so I guess we calculate that it means we are more valuable.

 

[Joshky]

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

When is the last time a single ant was able to kill off millions of its own kind and destroy millions of acres of wildlife? Humans, on the other hand, have this great capacity, so I guess we calculate that it means we are more valuable.

Ill take the ant's if that's the case.

 

[wkscott]

Ill take the ant's if that's the case.

Pretty soon..