04 Oct '08 06:10>
Originally posted by twhiteheadThat's why I wrote "(with some eceptions)". The shark is one example, the ant is another. (And we're not talking about millennia, but millions of years.) These species is quite stable in its evolution. They cannot evolve further. Neither sharks nor ants can ever evolve individual intellignece, they cannot ever enter technology phase, as primates did.
But there are exceptions. There are a number of species which have changed little over the millenia.
Human beings are now in a different stage of evolution whose patterns are unknown.
Man on the other hand, a specie that evolved from it's previous stage for a million of years ago (?) and got into our intellectual stage for 50 thousand of years ago (?). We are quite adaptable, which is our strength.
If man had been evolutionary stable as sharks, then we wouldn't get anyware evolutionary. We wouldn't sit here and discuss this over the internet, whale making a move of chess now and then.