suggests that maybe chimps are working their way through their very own Paleolithic era. Which suggests to me that if we finally do ourselves in, it won't be very long before there's another primate race taking over, building civilizations and downloading porn from the ChimperNet. Particularly if our demise involves raising the planetary radiation level, and thus increasing the mutation rate of surviving species.
Maybe they'll get it right. And if not, maybe the bushbabies can do so, after thousands of years evolving the ability to not get stabbed in their sleep.
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Date: 2007-02-22 07:08 pm (UTC)Usedta be, folks thought chimps had learned their tool-using behaviors by watching humans who lived in the same areas, but this:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/212/1
suggests that maybe chimps are working their way through their very own Paleolithic era. Which suggests to me that if we finally do ourselves in, it won't be very long before there's another primate race taking over, building civilizations and downloading porn from the ChimperNet. Particularly if our demise involves raising the planetary radiation level, and thus increasing the mutation rate of surviving species.
Maybe they'll get it right. And if not, maybe the bushbabies can do so, after thousands of years evolving the ability to not get stabbed in their sleep.