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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 06/15/2009 : 03:29:55
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I'd just like to call attention to this article in the Skeptic's Summery. It is interesting for more reasons than I think it's author knows: | Whether or not humans are the smartest species on the planet really depends on which animals and which humans you base it on. After all, sometimes when people match wits with members of the animal kingdom, it doesn't turn out well for the humans. |
In brief, the five species highlighted are problem solvers and are well known for it. And they are but a few among many.
The question is, and I've not the faintest idea of the answer, how did they develop these talents? What forces were at work on their ancestry that a "smarts" mutation began to be selected for?
And y'know what; the same might be asked of ourselves -- although the "smarts" part is open to question in all too many cases.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Evolution never rests......
