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of life forms – some small and seemingly insignificant, and some
huge and magnificent – we humans would not have evolved into the
planet-altering mutants we are. And, if we continue in the vein we
have been for the last century or so, we may well become extinct.
Or, perhaps, like so many sci-fi novels portend, and exactly like
what almost certainly happened on the southern tip of Africa about
100,000 years ago, a small group of us may survive in isolation to
slowly repopulate the earth. And that would be a good thing. Right?
Sapient is as sapient does
We call ourselves Homo sapiens (sometimes even Homo sapiens
sapiens) because, we like to think, we are the cleverest darn species
that ever lived, and we have not gotten over the Victorian notion
that – if God didn’t create us directly from a rib and a bit of mud –
He (yes, He) designed evolution with the sole purpose of ultimately
creating humans to, you know, have dominion and all that.
Anyhow, it’s this mentality that has had us continually evolving –
from foraging for our own food, to growing our own food, to buying
our groceries online and raising children who don’t even know
what kind of tree eggs grow on. We are dependent on such an
interconnected web of technology that we would not know how to
fend for ourselves without it. Many of us can’t even open our garage