>Humans are no different than dogs or cacti. I think we will always have a special place in the history books (perhaps not a pleasant one) because we were the

>Humans are no different than dogs or cacti. I think we will always have a special place in the history books (perhaps not a pleasant one) because we were the first to have some ability to consciously edit not only our DNA but the DNA of other species. Thinking about it, if life begin in millions of different universes, there would seem to be one of two possible outcomes. Life eventually goes extinct (due to something happening on the planet that life can't evolve to survive, if nothing else the death of the planet's star), or life develops a species with enough intelligence to be able to modify their own evolution. An idea similar to the anthropic principal. Though different in that we are a sufficient end case for the anthropic principal, but we haven't reached a sufficient end case in regards to evolution (though we have begun to grasp it).