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Humans are really just an example, I regret mentioning it. All significant developments in life (e.g. multi-cellular lifeforms, post-Cumbrian explosian animals)
by quietbritishjim 8y ago
Humans are really just an example, I regret mentioning it. All significant developments in life (e.g. multi-cellular lifeforms, post-Cumbrian explosian animals) took hundreds of millions to billions of years.
- kamaal 8y agoIn fact given the fact evolution is a process without a goal. Intelligence could be even more rare among multicellular lifeforms.
- Brockenstein 8y agoOr the consequence of great intelligence is an evolutionary dead end. What if intelligent life becomes smart enough to destroy itself, but doesn't survive quite long enough to use that intelligence to save itself.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoI remember reading that 4 or 5 intelligent hominids coexisted in Africa a million years ago. More or less intelligent. It can't be that rare then. In fact, dolphins. Octopi. Yeah, pretty much a given I'd imagine, in the right complex ecosystem, that intelligence is a thing.
- nickwalton00 8y agoEverything has some level of intelligence, but the intelligence to develop tools and civilization beyond tribes and sticks is something else.