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Given enough time, other species may evolve and perhaps teach us a thing or two about being better civilized beings.
My money is on the octopi people.
They don't live long enough, sadly. If they did, they could easily be the dominant species. Many octopus species have been shown to have the intelligence of a 7 year old. Besides the fact that it's a form of intelligence that evolved completely separate from ours (our last common ancestors didn't have a brain), octopi only live about 3-4 years. Think about that for a moment.
So about as smart of some former presidents. Awesome!
Precisely what I was thinking about when I said that in jest. But seriously, they are incredible creatures!
The problem is not how long they live but that they don't take care of the offspring, so every octopus need to learn everything from scratch again.
You may want to read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin (after Children of Time). If you haven't already...
We're going on an adventure!
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haha! awesome! I haven't read it, but having looked up the plot, I'm now interested. 🙃
Read Children of Time first, but the whole series is good. Basically anything he writes is good.
Children of Time had me bawling over spiders. I get all teared up even thinking about it.
I'm currently mowing through "The Final Architecture" series and that hits me in the feels too. Can't say why, spoilers!
I'm reading "Lords of uncreation". I recommend Dogs of War too. Rex is a good boy.
Alright. Grabbed all three books from my local library. Yay!
Enjoy! 😃
enjoy. CoT series truly is the best scifi I have read in a while. together with 3 body problem
Resident Alien supports your theory.
We started episode one, got interrupted, and never finished! Ack! Thanks for the reminder!
The kids can't act for shit
Kids always ruining everything. 😏
if only there were humans who wrote books about how to structure society such that things don't suck
Say maybe some german dude with a big beard