#头条创作挑战赛#
Darwin said that humans evolved from apes, and no scientist has been able to come up with valid evidence to prove this view. However, in today's prevalence of self-media, we can see more and more monkeys on the Internet, and they can always show some behaviors that only humans have, which has to make people believe more and more that humans may really be monkeys evolved. So will monkey evolution pose a threat to humans?
Indian Monkey Dog Wars
Two years ago, India's online media NEW18 reported a big battle between monkeys and dogs. In this battle, 250 dogs were killed, and it is said that almost all the dogs in a village were killed. So how did such a tragic incident happen?
The story takes place in a village called Lavul, India. According to the reporter's interviews with villagers, the cause of the incident may have been a month before the incident, when a female monkey with a cub clashed with a local dog group, and the dog group brutally bit the monkey cub to death and tore it apart. Unexpectedly, a month later, a large group of monkeys broke into the village, and they overwhelmed the border and killed the dogs when they saw them.
According to media reports, the monkeys did not attack frantically as soon as they came up, but first sent scouts to find where the dogs were, and once they found out, a group of monkeys would gather here, and then pick up rocks from the ground and throw them at the dogs. The dogs who can only bite with their teeth see this kind of long-range attack, where will they be able to parry, and they will not last long and flee, and those lone dog cubs can only be abused and killed by the monkeys, and the method is also quite cruel, they will throw it up and fall to death after grabbing the dogs, and then those old and sick people also die of the same method, and finally the dogs are defeated, and the monkeys win.
In this incident, the monkey shows the characteristics of holding grudges, planning, and using tools. There is a theory in biology that the most obvious sign of the transition from apes to humans is that humans will use tools, and seeing the behavior of these monkeys, one can't help but wonder, are they about to evolve into humans?
Did monkeys really evolve to humans?
Some people say that the monkeys did not understand how to use the tools themselves, but that they imitated humans after they entered human society, and they did not even know the meaning of what they were doing.
However, the phenomenon of monkeys using tools has always existed. In the Panamanian rainforests of Central America, a species of "white-faced capuchin monkey" lives and scientists have discovered that they can use stones to crack open nuts to get the flesh inside. What's more, they don't just use tools to open nuts in an unintentional way, but often in this way. And this ability is not available to every monkey in this group, only a few have this ability. It can be seen that the matter of smashing nuts with stones is not genetically inherited by them, but learned through acquired learning.
Previously, in the journal "Nature Ecological Evolution", there was a paper mentioning a non-human site, this site is in the Pikara Mountain National Park in Brazil, in this site, scientists found some small round stones, through the traces left on it, it can be judged that these stones are used to smash nuts, but these relics are not humans, but "capuchin monkeys", and these ruins have appeared 3000 years ago, that is, Capuchin monkeys have acquired this skill as early as 3,000 years ago and have passed it down from generation to generation by imitating each other.
Their behavior is very similar to that of humans, and they know that the meaning of this behavior is to obtain the pulp, but this is something they have learned on their own, and they have not been taught by humans.
But don't be surprised, because the use of tools is not just a human patent, and the reason why monkeys are primates should have this ability, because their IQ has already laid the foundation for such ability.
Scientists have long been very interested in the intelligence of monkeys, and some scientists have used rhesus macaques to conduct experiments, through experiments, they have found that the IQ of monkeys is equivalent to the IQ of humans when they are 3-4 years old, and some of them can even reach 10 years old. And through training, the monkey can understand some simple words and perform some simple mathematical operations. There was also a monkey who was even taught to drive a tractor.
With such an IQ, it is not surprising that they can divide and cooperate in battle. In fact, the division of labor and cooperation in the animal kingdom is a very common phenomenon, for example, ants have a clear social division of labor, some are responsible for fighting, some are responsible for finding food, and some are responsible for nest building. In addition, there are lions and wolves, which can also reflect the division of labor and cooperation in daily life, and these animals have much simpler brains than monkeys, and they can do it all, let alone monkeys as primates.
And a recent orangutan in Indonesia has made people even more suspicious that they have really evolved. There is a male gorilla in the tropical rainforest of Indonesia, and when scientists followed the study, they found that the gorilla had a wound on his face, which was large and could be described as a skin open. But it didn't expect it to look for some plants, chew them up and apply them to the wound, fearing that the flies would infect the wound, so it even covered the wound with leaves, and then it ate this plant every day. Even more surprisingly, it took only 5 days for the wound to close, and a month later only a faint scar remained.
Scientists later analyzed the plant and found that it could be used to treat diseases such as dysentery, diabetes, and malaria.
The use of tools, the social division of labor, and the use of herbs, all of these behaviors seem to indicate one thing, and that is that monkeys have really evolved.
Some people think it's a miracle in biology, some people think it's just normal natural phenomena, and some people think that these monkeys may pose a threat to human survival after they evolve, so what impact will monkey evolution have on humans?
Does monkey evolution threaten humans?
In the movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the director shows us how apes control humans step by step, and when we see the movie, we contact the monkeys in reality, and we are really afraid that one day they will launch a counterattack against humans and wrest control of the world from humans. However, when you think about it, this kind of thing is actually very difficult to happen.
The first question to discuss is, is the use of tools necessarily dangerous to humans? Of course, there is, even if monkeys don't use tools, they can still cause harm to humans, but we should look at this from the perspective of civilization evolution.
Although monkeys use stones to smash nuts, they don't know that it is more convenient to smash nuts with sharp stones; Monkeys can throw stones at their enemies, but they don't know that sharp sticks are more lethal when thrown out. Although the monkeys use herbs to heal their wounds, they don't know how to dry the herbs and use them directly next time.
Capuchin monkeys used stones to smash nuts 3,000 years ago, but after 3,000 years they will only smash nuts with stones, and they haven't even innovated a new technology from it, even if they tie a stone to a stick, it proves that they have indeed evolved, but they haven't.
If 3,000 years of time is placed on human beings, it is from the Shang Dynasty to modern times, from agricultural society to industrial society, from the age of cold weapons to the age of nuclear weapons, but the monkeys have not even entered the most basic agricultural civilization, and even the stone civilization is not yet mature. With such a gap in civilization, it is simply impossible to pose a threat to mankind. Unless one day a few monkeys start studying sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, humans are really going to be wary.
But if you look at it from another angle, there is a different way of saying it. First of all, we all know that even if monkeys don't have a weapon as destructive as humans, they will still cause harm to humans, and their fangs and claws are their most effective weapons, if they really use the same way to deal with dogs against humans, humans will also have to lose a lot, but will humans really use missiles to deal with monkeys? Of course not. So that's the advantage of monkeys over humans, and they will inflict harm on humans at the lowest cost.
Different angles have different answers, so it doesn't matter whether living things have evolved or not, and it doesn't matter whether humans are higher animals on the earth or not. Whether it is human beings, or monkeys, or ants on the ground, they are just a kind of species on the earth, and we species exist in this world to be able to eat, but in order to be able to eat, we have learned to farm, and we have learned to unite and protect our own food and our own lives, even in modern society, everything we do, isn't it for this purpose?
Humans create weapons of destruction, just as monkeys learn to throw stones, which are essentially just tools. Monkeys will divide and cooperate, humans will divide and cooperate, primitive humans will divide and cooperate, and many other animals will divide and cooperate. Humans hold grudges, monkeys hold grudges, and tigers and lions do the same. Humans often think that they are the masters of the earth because they have these characteristics, but many other animals also have these characteristics, and we are just more imaginative and creative than them, just as they are stronger and sharper than we are, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
So reading this, there is no need to dwell on the question of whether monkeys have evolved, as long as the creatures on the earth will evolve, but the speed of evolution and the direction of evolution are different, human beings can have today's achievements, just a kind of accidental luck, I didn't expect to be able to grow civilization in this world, it is imagination and creativity, and monkeys These animals, just missed this characteristic, but they are not evolving, will use stones to smash nuts because of access to food and survive, Those who can't use stones die alive, those who can use herbs survive because they can cure diseases, and those who can't use herbs to cure diseases die of wound infection.
The essence of evolution is actually the process of selection by nature, which selects organisms that can adapt to the harsh environment, and these organisms have their own characteristics and live according to their abilities. So luckily, we're human.
Now when we look back at the monkeys who were taught to read and write, it may be like when we learn foreign languages and cultures, we don't say that we have learned anything that can make us evolve, we just find that we can communicate with other people's languages by learning other people's languages.
In real life, human pets because of a long time and living in human society, slowly can understand some of the human behavior, for this, we can only say that learning, not evolution, even if the animals do not learn these human behaviors, they can live normally, just like we do not know foreign languages, do not understand advanced science and technology can live, because we also have their own civilization, then animals should actually have their own civilization.
That's why some wise people say that human beings should live in harmony with nature. Because those animals don't want their civilization to be destroyed, just as humans don't want their civilization to be destroyed.