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Which animal will replace humans as Earth's dominant species? This scientist has an idea (www.earth.com)
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His answer is the octopus. What say you?

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Why would even be a next "dominant single species", like humans?

Out of the billions of alive organisms that had ever been on earth only humans have human intelligence. It doesn't seem like a common trait for any organism.

I think that humans are just some weird anomaly. Once we are gone there will probably not be any other intelligent species for a while, if forever.