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Many times, even in the field of industry email list scientific dissemination, Homo sapiens has been defined as "the chosen species." Personally - I consider myself a simple primate - I find this statement very incorrect because, in reality, we are one more species in the heart of the animal world. There are no chosen and industry email list unchosen species. As Darwin put it, all living things are descended from a common ancestor; same trunk. And in this evolutionary tree, with many branches and twigs, the leaves in the canopy represent the living species on the planet. A fern, a snail, a lizard or a human are in the same stage of Evolution. No species is the choice. Darwin has already said it: not the strongest industry email list survives but the best adapted. Obviously, dead or broken branches exist in the tree: they are the species that have
remained on the path. Those that have become industry email list extinct. And, in the case of the specific branch of Human Evolution, Homo sapiens is the only species industry email list that has survived to the present day. However, in the past, we lived with other hominids; for example, Neanderthals. If, until very recently, it was said that coexistence with Neanderthals was warlike - the war would have been won by sapiens and hence the disappearance of their evolutionary cousins - today we know that they probably did not make war but love. . Our DNA has Neanderthal genes; fact that demonstrates a biological hybridization. The Neanderthals became extinct not because of the sticks of
the sapiens,but because - coinciding in time industry email list and space the two species - only one (as in the movie The Immortals ) had to stay alive… Darwin already said: two very similar species competing for the same resources means extinction biological of one of them. Although it was a very slow extinction. We sapiens possess great brains; an organ that has made it possible for our cultural abilities, in the absence of claws, high speed industry email list or hairy bodies, to allow us to develop spectacular technical advances, and thus survive in the environment: improvement of cutting tools, invention of utensils for hunting, making clothes and huts, etc. But we are not the only ones. Many industry email list animals, such as the chimpanzee, are able to make tools and beds, communicate, and also have cultural traditions.
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