2007-04-23 09:40:02 · 7 answers · asked by james 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It would depend on what God decided.
2007-04-23 09:46:12 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Why do you think a cephalopod is going to evolve into a human being? It has so many legs it should not just settle for being something with only two legs. I think it is destined to be a centipede if it works at that.
2007-04-23 16:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What natural advantage would there be, to be selected with a mutation that somehow miraculously presents vertebrae? That kind of mutation would probably be a detrimental to cephalopods. No backbone -- no evolution toward humanoid.
The same thing applies to coming out of the water -- what natural advantage for an cephalopod is there, for leaving water?
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2007-04-23 16:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First they would have to evolve into an amphibous animal, and then into something mammilian. So it'd take a while. Millions of years.
But the odds of this happening are slim.
2007-04-25 16:40:05 · answer #4 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have a very different structure from people. At least fishes had fins that could adapt to walking on land. These things don't have any bones. Breathing is going to be a problem too.
You've been watching too much Futurama.
2007-04-23 16:50:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
it is unlikely that such conditions exist, first you would have to remove it from water, then give it a reason to grow bones, then you would have to ( for some reson) create conditions that make having eight limbs obsolete. I really don't think that such a thing is possible without killing the octopus.
2007-04-23 16:50:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh i dont think it would happen but if i were to estimate maybe a couple hundred million years
2007-04-23 17:10:28 · answer #7 · answered by Rodrigo Alejandre 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋