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We're all products of our environment & history. It's an incremental change.
You're not a" fair level higher" if your environment is the sea & eating fish.
In evolutionary terms, apes are barely behind us at all. If we didn't exist they would become the dominant species and in a few million years be more like us, probably.
But as stated, it's about environment. If sea levels rise to cover 99% of the land, octopuses and sharks and dolphins will be looking much more like "the fittest" that's described in Darwin's theories.
Why are we a benchmark? Maybe we should be much smarter by now. Maybe an alien species will see ourselves and chimpanzees the same way we see pigs and sheep.
Sure we have iPads etc, how does that make us better in some way?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
You're not addressing my question. Why hasn't another species developed similar levels of intellect and so capability?
Youre not addrssing my question, but acknowledging it as a valid point!
why are apes a few million years behind us? Why did one species accellerate more than the others?
i.e. there were several proto-human species
We were then able to control our environment any species potentially able to start competing with us we were able to kill.
But in many ways we are less evolved that other even closely related species. We are nowhere near as strong as an ape.
There's probably no point in apes becoming more human like as that territory is ,so well taken. The chicken is, arguably, successful in evolutionary terms as vast numbers of them now live in all parts of the world.
Seems a hell of a stroke of luck though...as does the luck involved in life starting on Earth in the first place.
Is this why we created religion and the idea of God? because the chances of these things happening by luck is not a satisfactory answer to us?
and perhaps the biggest mystery of all, why, after all this accelerated mental development, did some of our fellow humans create the 2015 Gibson line up? :-)
However, as pretty much everyone can have kids now you're right that evolution probably isn't doing much for us. Bear in mind though that it operates over very, very long periods of time - longer than civilisation has existed, fer example.
One other reason why no other species has hit the same heights as us is that it may not be advantageous. Being conscious must have helped us survive and pass on our genes. It might be a hindrance for other species in other environments.
Due to our sedate lifestyle and our medical advances we are allowing genes to flourish that would have been wiped out in the wild.
Should something like a massive solar flare wipe out all electrical devices, and we get thrown back 400 years, we will probably experience a natural culling of the weaker of our species.
Human evolution interesting, maybe we'll see a propensity for the ability to grow topknots, longer arms to accommodate full sleeve tattoos and a chameleon like ability to independently move our eyes meaning we can look at a phone screen whilst simultaneously crossing a road safely.