What if intelligence were to re-emerge

The.Black.Templar

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At one point Homo Sapiens lived together with the Neanderthals, though at first separately where the Neanderthals primarily lived in Europe as Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa. There was an epic clash between the two species of intelligent life but Homo Sapiens being the newer more advanced species exterminated those Neanderthals, although some are still with us kama a certain mad man wa bonobos in these streetz.

So what would happen if intelligence were to re-emerge again? would we see it, would we know that our time has come to an end? what would it look like?
 

upepo

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At one point Homo Sapiens lived together with the Neanderthals, though at first separately where the Neanderthals primarily lived in Europe as Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa. There was an epic clash between the two species of intelligent life but Homo Sapiens being the newer more advanced species exterminated those Neanderthals, although some are still with us kama a certain mad man wa bonobos in these streetz.

So what would happen if intelligence were to re-emerge again? would we see it, would we know that our time has come to an end? what would it look like?
First, it is improbable that Homo Sapiens exterminated Neanderthals, unless the world was once the size of a village with a few hundred residents. Given that other examples of primates have co-evolved in the same habitat for millennia, the same should have happened to humans and their cousins. The neanderthals were most likely taken out by other natural causes, such as disease.

Two, I would hazard a guess that the next intelligence has been around, only that it is dispersed and can neither congregate nor propagate. The next intelligence could be in some busy city or other nondescript locality eking out a living, and will likely be down-bred with a dumb, broad-hipped lass. In recent history, Germany is the one country that congregated enough intelligence to a point of threatening other humanity.

It is plausible that the greatest ancient civilizations had devised effective methods of propagating intelligence from one generation to the next. Otherwise, how do we explain the ability of societies with short life-spans (40yrs) to pass complex skills and knowledge to subsequent generations within such a brief life?
 

Field Marshal

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First, it is improbable that Homo Sapiens exterminated Neanderthals, unless the world was once the size of a village with a few hundred residents. Given that other examples of primates have co-evolved in the same habitat for millennia, the same should have happened to humans and their cousins. The neanderthals were most likely taken out by other natural causes, such as disease.

Two, I would hazard a guess that the next intelligence has been around, only that it is dispersed and can neither congregate nor propagate. The next intelligence could be in some busy city or other nondescript locality eking out a living, and will likely be down-bred with a dumb, broad-hipped lass. In recent history, Germany is the one country that congregated enough intelligence to a point of threatening other humanity.

It is plausible that the greatest ancient civilizations had devised effective methods of propagating intelligence from one generation to the next. Otherwise, how do we explain the ability of societies with short life-spans (40yrs) to pass complex skills and knowledge to subsequent generations within such a brief life?
Brilliant...
 
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