Will Earth usher in a second civilization? Panamanian monkeys have entered the Stone Age, causing concern among scientists
It is a fact that humans are the only civilization on Earth, but the Earth has been born in the universe for 4.6 billion years, thanks to factors such as water, air and a pleasant climate.
The earth is fully capable of giving birth to new intelligent species, but why is it that out of 8.7 million species, only humans have produced intelligence? This question is a question that scientists are puzzled by.
Dinosaurs are the previous generation of overlords of the earth, once ruled the earth for more than 160 million years, but they have never been able to produce intelligence, nor can they produce civilization, which scientists believe is related to the genes, living environment and physique of dinosaurs. First of all, dinosaurs rely on the huge size of the body can easily obtain food, although their brain capacity is large, but never use the brain to think, secondly, the dinosaur's physique also inhibits their action, dinosaurs are only daily activities, need to consume a lot of energy, which makes dinosaurs have no time to evolve other parts of the body.
Finally, scientists believe that the most important point is that dinosaurs did not liberate their forelimbs. The reason why humans can create and invent countless scientific and technological supplies, in addition to having strong thinking ability and creativity, also need to have hands-on ability, but for dinosaurs, the forelimbs are just ornaments.
So, will the creature closest to humans, the apes, have a chance to evolve into humans? The scientific community has been torn apart on this issue.
Orangutans are close relatives of humans, according to research, orangutans began to branch and evolve 14 million years ago, it shares a common ancestor with humans, and the genetic similarity between orangutans and humans has reached 96.4%.
In the 1970s, scientists found a chimpanzee named Oliver in the jungles of the Congo region of Africa, and this orangutan had a genetic mutation, and its genes were only 0.02% different from humans, and scientists thought it almost became a human.
Coincidentally, in the tropical islands of Panama, scientists have found that a monkey called the white-faced capuchin monkey is suspected to have entered the "Stone Age", they will use stone to make tools, but also use stone tools to grind food and attack enemies, and so on.
In the face of this extremely rare phenomenon, some scientists have expressed concern, although monkeys evolving into humans and becoming hostile to humans is only a plot of science fiction movies, but the Panamanian monkeys have verified that apes are still learning and evolving. Scientists worry that even if apes don't evolve into creatures with similar appearances to humans, they will create a second civilization on Earth and have serious differences with human society.
