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Frankly, dinosaurs were much more successful as a species. They were around for about 200 million years. Humans have been around barely 20 million years and tim
by richieb 16y ago
Frankly, dinosaurs were much more successful as a species. They were around for about 200 million years. Humans have been around barely 20 million years and time during which civilization existed is even smaller (5000 years?).
Hardly a triumph.
- robryan 16y agoYet there doesn't seem to have been a dinosaur nimble enough to perform intricate tasks like humans can. I guess evolutionary wise anything that could have headed down the path of human like ability would have been destroyed by the larger species before it had a chance to get to the level of out thinking and building them.
- megablast 16y agoGive us a chance, despite all appearances, it isn't over yet for us.
- philwelch 16y agoDinosaurs were a superorder, not a species. To make it fair, you'd have to compare dinosaurs with euarchontoglires (rodents, rabbits, shrews, and primates collectively, humans included with primates). And you might even have to include birds with dinosaurs.