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In reply to the discussion: Are human beings an evolutionary mistake? [View all]John Ludi
(589 posts)as a future "evolutionary footnote".
Not sure if it would occur with any (or all) other species who develop technologies advanced enough to destroy themselves...I'd like to think that there are a certain amount that make it through that funnel...but I'm pretty sure WE won't, given our past behavior and current trajectory.
You'd think that at some point a species would be able to transcend the Darwinian impulses that come from being part of the food chain with all it's attendant competition for resources, but my own observations are that very few of our own species make it to that stage as individuals. Mostly we behave like creatures with a budding neocortex barely restraining the atavistic tendencies of millions of years of limbic system hardware...and we rationalize those primal behaviors with a vain notion that we are behaving in a fully intentional way.
Oh well...