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A key criteria for being a "perfect" apex predator is to be dumb. Smart apex predators rapidly lead to worldwide extinction events.

• tremon 3y ago
  Not sure about "rapidly". We've been working on it for thousands of years, at least.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    But we've rapidly advanced that progress within the last 100 years. All signs indicate that progress is gaining momentum, not losing it.
  • beezlewax 3y ago
    1000s of years is very fast in evolutionary terms
  • DangitBobby 3y ago
    But we now grow the vast majority of our own prey which I don't think is normal.