Charles Robert Darwin

[Shemjaza]

Better at manipulating the environment...on a global scale?

The first CO2 breathers changed the environment to the point of creating banded formations in metal ores.

It made for a cyclically destructive environment... but it also created a niche for O2 breathers to develop. Without O2 there'd be no animals, and thus no humans.

(EDIT, just to clarify, this was a completely mindless action, not a deliberate attempt to change the environment).

 

[pitabread]

Do you think that maybe humans are the most invasive?

Maybe, I honestly don't know.

Are you going somewhere with this?

 

[Tone]

Maybe, I honestly don't know.

Are you going somewhere with this?

This is a thread about (kind of) C.R.D., where did you expect it to go?

 

[Tone]

The first CO2 breathers changed the environment to the point of creating banded formations in metal ores.

It made for a cyclically destructive environment... but it also created a niche for O2 breathers to develop. Without O2 there'd be no animals, and thus no humans.

(EDIT, just to clarify, this was a completely mindless action, not a deliberate attempt to change the environment).

So, maybe O2 gave rise to consciousness?

 

[Tone]

Maybe, I honestly don't know.

Are you going somewhere with this?

Aren't there species that we allow to live with no strings attached?

 

[Shemjaza]

So, maybe O2 gave rise to consciousness?

Very indirectly I guess.

Hundreds and hundreds of millions of years of animals that are unlikely to be much smarter then our dumber fish came first.

 

[Ophiolite]

Aren't there species that we allow to live with no strings attached?

Glove puppets?

 

[jayem]

Getting back to Darwin factoids...I don't know if this has been noted in these 560+ posts. The man was born Feb. 12, 1809. The exact same day as Abe Lincoln. I guess you could say that one ended the enslavement of a man's body. The other ended the enslavement of a man's mind.