First, just a figment of a fairy-tale forged by Evolution Philosophical Thinking: Imagine that all humans animals suddenly die out, after a God-all-Mitey suddenly convinced her sister Satan to stop her barring the emergence of an extremely virulent (air-born) variaty of HIV. [BTW, what a relief that would be for others. ;-)] In such a case, Every Pan Troglodyte, and every non-chimpanzee primate, would by this event start to be part of, and to more or less strongly 'feel' (or be 'naturally selectively affected' by) a phylogeny forming "Opportunity Type Selective/Evolutionary Pressure" towards *this specifically evacuated* (i.e., approximately same no longer settled/defined by the very existence - ascertained with the benefit of EPTly anthropocentric hind-sight - of the human species) "spot". Such an evacuated (by a 'from-humans-to-humus-transforming happenstance) ecological Niche/place in our earth's biological configuration space [an alternative picture might be: 'a puncturing of a particular people-specific protuberance within a by past evolutionary pressures pumped up and shaped fitness landscape] would become unallocated and available for being (in an evolutionary sense) *again* taken adaptive and 'genophenotyping' advantage of, or thus made possible and likely to be occupied/exploited/filled [as if being an 'encore potentiation' - tentatively pondered to have occurred within the 'platonic dimension'; i.e., 'the one' that consists of purely potential prototypes and that is near enough also known as the "brane world" or "bulk"] BY SUITABLY and CLOSELY ENOUGH POSITIONED preexisting genophenotypes -- more likely by chimps than by giraffes - or any other such idea-illustrating "obvious enoughs". %-] P
>First, just a figment of a fairy-tale forged by Evolution Philosophical>Thinking: In the event a human "global die off" occured intelligence might never again arise on this planet. If it did I expect sea otters or raccons would have as good a chance as any existing primate. There ISN'T any specifically "human" nich in the biosystem that would automatically be filled. TWINBLUE
"TWINBLUE" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > > >First, just a figment of a fairy-tale forged by Evolution > Philosophical>Thinking: > > In the event a human "global die off" occured intelligence > might never again arise on this planet. Has it thus far?(!) > If it did I expect sea otters or raccons would have as > good a chance as any existing primate. I see it as being obviously more likely that descendants of a chimpanzee genophenotype would take up 'our fallen mantle', than that descendants of sea otters or raccoons would; this since the former's genophenotype are the closest to our own and would require fewer and more-close-at-hand steps of genetic [or perhaps just "histone code carried epigenetic"(?)] changes to get to be where (in the Niche) we were - would we die out. > There ISN'T any specifically "human" nich in the biosystem > that would automatically be filled. So you may say However, I was thinking/talking about *potential* niches, and still do, from a position of hindsight, here-and-now-sight, and foresight, combined. P
