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Which animal will replace humans as Earth's dominant species? This scientist has an idea (www.earth.com)

submitted 4 days ago by MelonYellow@lemmy.ca to c/science@lemmy.world

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His answer is the octopus. What say you?

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could read the article for their definition of dominant and use it like the rest of us are.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

Sure, if my goal was to entertain their proposed definition.

My goal was instead commenting that this might be a fun endeavor for some, but remind everybody else that might not be familiar with biological sciences that this isn't actually a formal definition or a scientific claim that one species is or isn't dominant.