re: #6 Shiplord Kirel

This is why the refinement of binocular vision and highly articulated forelimbs, hands and arms, were such crucial evolutionary developments. The ability to throw rocks and wield sharp sticks was a real boost to survival. This process has never ceased and has now reached such a level that it is the fierce biological predators who fear us, and rightly so.

Do you ever wonder, “why us?” I mean why, out of all the creatures, were we so phenomenally successful in such a relatively short period of time that we came to dominate all the other creatures?

Of course, I say “successful” but I guess that remains to be seen, doesn’t it? We’re rapidly destroying our planet, we’re not exactly doing that great a job of getting along with each other, and we have the capability to wipe ourselves out with the weapons we’ve invented….add to that that we’ve been reproducing at an alarming rate that threatens to make resources scarce, and we might not be doing all that great after all.

Oh jeez, I just had an awful thought: On an evolutionary timeline our measly couple of hundred thousand years as “modern” humans hogging the spotlight makes us like…what? The Sarah Palin of evolution?

*gasp, choke, whimper…nooo, please*