Do you ever wonder why human is the only intelligent being on earth ?

Question

Have you imagine if bear evolve in a way like human too ? your best friends or your co-worker could be a bear!??!!

Animal Crossing ?

Dolphin , dog are intelligent. no doubts.
but i mean can you teach them math ?
can they ever play chess with you ?

i mean with so much species in the animal kingdom ? yet only human evolves ?

Its a miracle!!!!!

Answer 1

Consider yourself lucky. There are many species that both outnumber us and can kick our butts in a fight. Can you imagine an intelligent, coordinated attack from locusts, ants, crows, even chipmunks. The movie "The Birds" would look peaceful compared to the reality of killer seagulls.

Not possible? How about the towns where monkeys are aggressive and dangerous. Or the docks that are overrun by seals.

Be thankful our unique intelligence keeps us at the relative top of the food chain. Our fangs and claws would come in second in most fights.

Answer 2

The development of the cerebral cortex is only a recent phenomena...say within the last 60-100,000 years or so. That put us ahead of the other hominids and creatures in the animal kingdom...at least in the logical and rational thinking aspect. We're the new and improved model. The 15 or so other hominids that became extinct, could not adapt. I don't see where a miracle occurred, but only the natural selection of a more 'survivable' species.

Answer 3

Would rather work with a bear than a human..at least I know what to expect from a bear...used to camp in Grizzly country all the time and never had a problem with them. Why? Because I RESPECTED them...unlike humans who have no respect for anything, not even themselves...as Mike Royko once said, even rattlesnakes and scorpions respect each other and that as a species, humans are the only ones that don't...kind of makes you proud to be human, doesn't it?

Answer 4

I think it is very self serving of us to believe that we are the only intelligent being on earth or that we are the only to evolve. Many times I look at animals and plants and think: 'what do we know?' they may be looking back at us and making 'human' jokes to our expense... because, let's face it... what's are excuse to our mistakes.
Many scientific books bear the sentence that reads... "the difference between humans and animals is not intelligence, it's reason." Apparently we have the capability to look in retrospective... to analyze, to predict, to assume, to expect, and to imagine to a larger extent than our animal counterparts.
However, we recently learned that Dolphins assign names to eachother and know eachother by them. THEY CALL EACH OTHER BY NAME! how amazing is to know that.

I think we know very little about the animal kingdom and that we shouldn't be so fast to judge... maybe they just know who they are and what they are here for... we don't, so in looking... we evolve!

Answer 5

Pandas are an example of backward evolution..they used to be carnivores but now spend 16-18 hours of the day eating bamboo to survive..crows in urban areas will drop nuts on pedestrian crossings so cars will crush them and then wait for the lights to change to red so they can eat.. very clever I say..pidgeons using the tube in London is another..not to mention dolphins...Nah..We are not the only intelligent being on this Earth.

Answer 6

We are little over ambitious here to comoclude that humans are the only 'intelligent' ones. dolphins could be an example of a difference.

Perhaps, to my mind, more than the capacity to intelligence, what constitutes human knowledge system is his ability to language, both to articulate and write to keep records of. a child undergoes tremendous amount of taining in civilisation and knowledge, before he becomes a proper human, and allthis is done through the recorded system of knowledge, and organised system of imparting knowledge.

supose we loose all our knowledge one day, like through a destructive war, and suppose one lets the potentially most intelligent child in an isolated island, will the human in such conditions be same as us?

who knows, if the dolphins had the ability to language, and recording knowledge, they would have been more intelligent than the humans, and who knows?

Answer 7

I guess it's because the earth is created that way. Humans are the masterminds in earth.... But maybe for other planets that has intelligent beings in them is also different..

Worlds are created differently unique I think...

But it's an interesting thought though, if the earth is like that then it'll be something like the ones in X-men or something..

Answer 8

I wouldn't say that other beings on this earth are not intelligent. They all communicate in their own languages. Just because we are the only ones that can do math doesn't mean anything. Who knows, maybe they all know more then we do about things and just don't want to let on.

Answer 9

Man adapted to his environment, he started out using simple tools. The brain expanded as we became more social and shared ideas, and perhaps as meat a more frequent meal. No other animal required a need for tools or be social with one another, so their brains did not evolve to a problem solving one such as ours.

Answer 10

Working "animal partners"
Leader dogs
Police dogs
Monkeys that assist quadriplegics
Dolphins (government work as well as entertainment)
Whales

Depends on your definition of intelligence and whether or not you are including in that definition an eternal soul - and, I suppose, whether one believes God endowed these wonderfully intelligent creatures with souls.

Food for thought.