For those of you who study evolution; species are constantly evolving and from those, new species are being created, but at a much faster rate species are becoming extinct. On a systematical objective view would it be likely to predict cockroaches soon being the dominant species on the planet?
Here is how I justify this assumption:
Of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now extinct. Many of them perished in five cataclysmic events.
According to a recent poll, seven out of ten biologists think we are currently in the throes of a sixth mass extinction. Some say it could wipe out as many as 90 percent of all species living today. Yet other scientists dispute such dire projections.
Scientist also consider how one species -- Homo sapiens -- may be triggering a modern mass extinction.
If Nuclear winter causes such an extinction, Cockroaches might remain as the dominant species. How will they rule the earth? Through democracy or dictatorship?
2007-10-13 10:54:37 · 8 answers · asked by Sam 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think they will go with royalty.
Can't you just see the little king and queen with their gazillion princes and princesses killing each other off to get to the throne?
It would be cockroach soap opera. Lovely.
2007-10-13 10:59:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would make sense if a species of insect became the dominant species on the planet. After all, the reptiles were once dominant, then the mammals so it really is the insects turn. I'm not sure what system of government the insects will use. Let's hope whatever they choose, they will learn from our mistakes and restrict the influence of religion in their society.
2007-10-13 11:09:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockroaches are not nearly as tough as some other species. In particular, lithophagic bacteria. There is some evidence that these bacteria survived major asteroidal collisions in the Pre-Cambrian era that resulted in the oceans totally boiling away. Try to survive that, you cockroaches!
2007-10-13 11:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by Ruel The Midianite 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should ask the 3 companies that paid to advertise on your question page. Studying Evolution does not make us an expert on the behavior of cockroaches. But the exterminator may know.
2007-10-13 11:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 02:46:38 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are so dumb! nuclear winter huh? i think you've watched the day after tommorow or some other movie a little too mcuh so you should jsut cutback on that and start seeing the positive side cockroaches arent ruling the world yet! (yay)
2007-10-13 11:44:12 · answer #6 · answered by V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockroaches are tough, but the rulers of the planet now, in the past, and long into the future, are bacteria.
2007-10-13 10:58:38 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You'll probably get better answers if you ask this in a Science or Biology section.
2007-10-13 10:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by McLovin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋