Chimpanzee next human?

[P3X491]

Are u saying that chimps are the evolved form of us?

[Jet2]

Ironically, just the opposite might be true.

 

Look at MTV, reality shows, and popular media in general. I think humans are well on their way to becoming the next chimps.

 

Bingo!

[Dracontes]

I was thinking we are so closely related to monkey and when looking at a picture of evolution we started out as a monkey to being with. right? if so they could become another type of human in a matter of speaking. I don't know much about evolution so if I'm wrong in any way tell me.

 

Could be that if chimpanzees had the necessary selective pressures acting upon them, they could develop they intelligence and culture to a level similar to our own as the have much of the necessary exaptable structures. I would refrain of calling them "next humans" though, human should be reserved only for genus Homo :D

 

So, new types of life are occurring each day. Everytime an animal has a baby, it's a new rung on the evolutionary ladder.

 

The evolutionary ladder is a rather outdated concept, FYI. At that resolution, of the individual, the scheme of ascent-descent relations is a tangled web, and calling the baby a new "rung" is premature at best as that baby needs to have a baby itself before acquiring "link status".

 

But it has been observed how a chimp 'invent' something, and how the knowledge of this 'invention' was disseminated through the troop. A chimp in Japan was observed to wash potatoes in water to get the grit off. She was the first to do it, and nobody showed her. She went on to show the rest of the guys, and this knowledge have since been handed down to their own children. This could be said to be the beginning of 'culture'.

 

Actually that was a Japanese Macaque female (see Other aspects section), though it doesn't invalidate your argument as the particular culture of each chimpanzee troop had to come somewhere.

 

But in order or them to come to their full to fill the niche humans are currently filling, humans first have to exit the scene. Humans are notorious for not taking well to competition...

 

In fact, it seems quite the opposite is happening what with chimps endangered with human encroachment.

 

a while back I saw this program on the discovery channel.

 

It was about the future of earth and it's species.

 

It seemed really outragious and exclusive.

 

The Future is Wild, a development on Dougal Dixon's After Man.

 

They preditced that sharks would evolve even bigger and smarter... and would have neon glowing stripes on their back(I forget what the purpose of those was).

 

Intraspecific communication.

 

 

hahaa. Silly, isn't it?

 

Moderately silly, yes, and somewhat haphazard but overall interesting nonetheless.

[InfiniteNow]

The evolutionary ladder is a rather outdated concept, FYI. At that resolution, of the individual, the scheme of ascent-descent relations is a tangled web, and calling the baby a new "rung" is premature at best as that baby needs to have a baby itself before acquiring "link status".

You're responding to a comment I made without providing the context in which I made it. My approach was not to give a 100% accurate definition of the process, but to put into terms which someone not familiar with it might understand. Thanks for the info, though. :hihi: