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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 10/13/2010 : 05:51:25
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Human Ancestors Hunted by Prehistoric Beasts. What? You mean we haven't been top dog for, like, forever?
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Ebone4rock
SFN Regular
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2010 : 06:19:37 [Permalink]
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Is the fact that we are prey for some bigger and meaner animals even to this day somehow new news to some people?
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Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/13/2010 : 06:41:05 [Permalink]
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We have never been "top dawg." The difference between then and now is that most, but not all, of our current predators are harder to see.
Filarial worm (Wuchereria bancrofti), the cause of elephantiasis
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2010 : 07:21:02 [Permalink]
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| I had to just shake my head and chuckle when I read that article. In my opinion anthropocentrism is a disease that stifles thought and inquiry, we should be doing everything we can to stamp it out. I realise that in its most basic sense it has helped us survive, but we no longer need to be slaves to it. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2010 : 08:35:09 [Permalink]
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Humans are far and away from top dog status amone animals. That one has to go to the single deadliest (to humans) animal on the planet, and one of the oldest extant animal species (been around for 30million years or so, I think):
Mosquitos
As for overall top dog in the entire biosphere? Well, there are thousands of different species of these suckers, and most of them can trade genetic material between themselves and other species. They have been around for a long long time, they comprise two of the three kingdoms on the tree of life, are found in the oldest known fossils (~3.5billion years):
Bacteria
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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| Edited by - Dude on 10/16/2010 08:36:22 |
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The worst kept secret in paleontology
