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GliderGuider

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5. We are an evolutionary hyper-success story.

Reply to The2ndWheel (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 03:21 PM

Sep 2014

IMO the problem with Homo sapiens is not that we're failures, but that we have been successful beyond our wildest dreams. We are executing the same evolutionary program as any other species. We simply evolved enough intelligence to defeat all other potential predators on the face of the planet. Except ourselves...

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