Imagine you're on a scientific expedition from another world that's been sent to the Earth of 2-million years ago. Your mission is to select a single species which will be transplanted to another planet in order to populate it. Based on such criteria as potential intelligence, physical durability, inter-species cooperation, etc., which species would you recommend?
2006-08-08 04:26:44 · 9 answers · asked by Chug-a-Lug 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Dolphins.
2006-08-08 06:38:33 · answer #1 · answered by fresh2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends upon how much weight you put on each of the selection criteria. Two million years ago had some pretty advanced hominids (I think even Australopithecus was already gone by that time), so if intellect was the most important, then I would pick hominids. On the other hand, if you pushed the time line back 20 million years then I might have picked a more distant human relative, the bear. By 20 million years ago, bears and hominids were more comparable in intellect but the bear would win hands (paws) down in the physical category.
2006-08-08 11:43:13 · answer #2 · answered by Eric G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some sort of mammal. Saurs stagnated...over the millions of years they remained on Earth, their little reptilian brains remained that...little reptilian brains. As they say "once a dinosaur, always a dinosaur."
Unfortunately, interspecies cooperation is not one of the best features of mammals. Mankind is not the only species that kills its own for other than food or defense. Chimps, for example, have been known to wage war with other tribes for no apparent reason.
2006-08-08 11:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by oldprof 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would depend on the characteristics of the planet, which would determine what selection pressures effected the species.
But if it was just one species on to a lifeless planet, it would have to be a bacterium, or archea, how would anything else survive?
2006-08-08 14:16:23 · answer #4 · answered by Misfit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a mammalian species that has a short gestation period, and the ability to adapt, so a animal from the cat or dog species would probably the most adaptable.
2006-08-08 11:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by Karen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a fish may reproduce quickly but has not physical durability.
a human may have intelligence but takes time to reproduce.
so a dog may be taken
2006-08-08 11:31:07 · answer #6 · answered by indiansoffline 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockroach. They are tough mofos
2006-08-08 13:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by crimsonphoenix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None, because all life can be destroyed by it.
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2006-08-08 15:47:37 · answer #8 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please give possible species first
2006-08-08 11:31:17 · answer #9 · answered by tomboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋