Posted: Jan 15, 2017 1:11 am
VazScep wrote:You've got a long way to go from noticing that humans have survived to saying that humans have any particular feature.archibald wrote:As you say, at the moment, our prehistoric brains do a half-decent enough job (enough to have helped in our survival so far, perhaps)
The organisms that have survived to this day survived to this day through all that weather. So what?
Fair enough. I'm speculating (hence the perhaps). And it's true that different features and abilities may allow different species to survive in certain (often niche) habitats or conditions. We may not be the only species to have managed to survive for a while, and some may have survived longer than us, but at the same time it would seem a stretch to me to suggest that the unusual features and abilities that come with a human brain have not played a part in our own 'success'. I'd like to hear the case for that alternative before changing my mind.
After all, we have managed to survive in a much wider variety of habitats than most (or any) other creature and if some reports and prognoses are correct we have proliferated to the point that we may be causing a mass extinction of other species.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/ ... extinction
"That's the conclusion of a new study, which calculates that three-quarters of today's animal species could vanish within 300 years"