Which animal will replace humans as Earth's dominant species? This scientist has an idea (www.earth.com)

submitted 3 months ago by MelonYellow@lemmy.ca to c/science@lemmy.world

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His answer is the octopus. What say you?

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m not even convinced that intelligence is a requirement to be the dominant species. Intelligence is so expensive that nature rarely ever selects for it.

Trilobytes did pretty damn well for a hell of a lot longer than we have so far. I think we need a stronger working definition of “dominant” in order to judge any candidates.