Chimpanzees are a guess.
2006-09-01 20:35:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Humans are our own worst competition, followed by some of the infectious microorganisms.
The other great apes are probably the the best bet for developing human-like intelligence, but I'd give raccoons a decent chance, too. They've got good hands, which might lead to tool use someday.
JMB
2006-09-01 15:46:24
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answered by levyrat 4
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Sometimes, the toughest competitor is the absence of the product. In other words, if you invent something, you have to compete with people who realize they don't need it, no matter how much money you spend on marketing.
Humans may finally realize that their toughest competition is the need for less humans. We are consuming ourselves out of the ability to continue at the level we have reached.
Otherwise, our competitors are the diseases which work to get rid of overpopulated species. If we don't contribute more usefulness to the universe than we consume in resources, Nature will dump us, or at least, reduce us to the level that is sustainable.
2006-09-01 15:39:52
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answered by auntiegrav 6
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There are 2 species on Earth who think they are the most intelligent. Humans & Dolphins. Humans think they are the smartest because they built cities, industry, and civilization, and the Dolphins didn't. The Dolphins think that THEY are the smartest for the same reason.
2006-09-01 16:27:48
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answered by roscoedeadbeat 7
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That question supposes evolution. That question also supposes that our intelligence will be reproducible in the sense that we understand. What makes you think that another life form will have an intelligence like ours? The number system could be very different. The language structure and such could be very different. The value system and priorities regarding technology and religion could be very different. It may be that the intelligence that another species attains might be so alien to us that we would never recognize it. It may have already happened and we would never know it.
2006-09-01 16:28:07
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answered by Jack 7
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These are very relative questions. technically the dominant species on the planet would be an insect WAY before a human. They just have us plastered when it comes to numbers and reporductive success.
As for intellegence, I don't think any animal is at risk for loosing enough intellegence to interact with us (sorry I had to pull in the hitchiker's guide joke there)
2006-09-01 15:36:26
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answered by miracol@sbcglobal.net 2
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I dunno, dude ... I do exactly no longer think of you have concept this by using. a sparkling species of human might properly be created in 2 strategies: a million) selective breeding; low priced, yet might take one thousand or so generations earlier you start to get important outcomes; ie 25,000 years. You and your gf won't get to be certain the outcomes 2) genetic engineering. you will possibly desire to call Monsanto or Syngenta to ask for a quote, yet you would be gazing tens, probable hundreds of thousands and thousands of dollars; genetic engineering isn't low priced. perhaps you will possibly desire to pitch a company case to them and notice in the event that they purchase your theory; yet then you definitely're left with a $2 hundred cheque mutually as they bypass off and make slender vampires. those adult males have the main kick-*** patent criminal experts on earth; so in actuality, vampires are already between us (extra deadly than something interior the Twilight video clips). even nonetheless, you will possibly desire to do your individual genetic engineering. you will possibly might desire to bypass to college for 12 years to get a PhD in Genetics plus placed up-rfile. That places you on the backside rung of the genetics industry ladder. then you definitely might might desire to get investment to your examine undertaking. The college's Ethics Committee will bypass over your supply concept with the proverbial positive-the teeth comb, because of the fact vampires might throw up some ethical problems. Then there is all the artwork of sequencing, purifying, amplifying and splicing DNA and analysing the outcomes, repeated some thousand situations till at last you get it top. then you definitely understand you have actually stumbled on a treatment for many cancers, your supply funds has run out, so which you ditch the vampire species theory and sell your theory to Syngenta, this time for, like $50 million funds and a seat on the Board. Your lady buddy leaves you because of the fact she's nevertheless into the entire vampire element and is no longer inspired by ability of your Maserati and Swiss chalet and coastline homestead in Hawaii. so which you're prosperous, lonely, finally end up caught in a soulless government job in a multinational employer, and thinking the place all your youthful enthusiasm went. yet howdy, a minimum of you have cured maximum cancers. So I dunno - there are pluses and minuses. i might, like, completely communicate with the careers counsellor in college earlier making any enormous judgements in this one.
2016-11-06 06:23:13
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answered by sturms 4
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No,human is ultimate species.
2006-09-01 18:03:46
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answered by MissFretNot 3
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Dolphins.
2006-09-01 15:35:18
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answered by Dulcinea 5
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The incontrovertible thing about being at the top of the food chain is that you nip any competition in the bud.
2006-09-01 15:35:58
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answered by Anonymous
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There are many actually. First apes (monkeys) scientist have proff on all of these I am naming lol. Then dolphins. There where some other ones to, but i can't quite remember, sorry.
2006-09-01 15:36:54
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answered by aim 3
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