so let's say in the next ~500 years people get bored of Earth and decided to bugger off to Mars or some wacky dimension. What species on Earth have the best chance of evolving enough to catch up to where humans are at right now?
Hard mode: no monkeys/apes
niggers
No apes
lemurs
Read "After Man" by Dougal Dixon. The book is on-line as a free PDF.
>scribd.com
Dixon argues that rodents would diversify to fill most ecological niches; they are adaptable and reproduce quickly. There'd be herbivores, carnivores, and (maybe) Homo Rodentia.
Technically There is almost no likelyhood that anything will "catch up" to humans, everything evolves differently.
And we aren't related to monkeys (we have a common ancestor) and saying they will "catch up" is retarded
evolution doesn't occur as fast as you may think.
Rodents do have an insane amount of variation occuring
Rodents like rats are extremely durable, they dominate and spread their populations even when highly adept predators like cats have influence over them. They can be tough, live with disease, and form colonies (of a sort). So you're on the right track with assuming their potential, but things like rats need to have muchhh longer lifespans to acquire and share knowledge.
There's no end goal of evolution besides staying alive, so it's not like species are 'trying' to become like humans or be the dominant species like humans in that way.
If there's incentive to become smart like people, then any species could potentially become like us with the right variables in place. We came from lowly rodents while dinosaurs dominated the earth with very little intellectual capability.
So if there 'must' be a dominant intellect species in your question, rodents are a good thing to look at.
Pro-simians are really, really, really stupid, but the rotation of lemur hips to an upright gait is (according to a former science teacher) closer to being us than chimps.
This
Rodents if they live longer, corvids if they can get good building/social environments, octopi if they lived longer and formed groups or organized tool strategies, maybe if cetaceans could get their shit together enough to form hands or something
Negroids
Dolphins, if they would evolve to have proper limbs somehow.
Racoons or rodents like rats - they already have functional arms, and they need bigger brain.
Also, elephants - they already have a good "manipulator" and big brain.
But everything depends on pressure of the natural selection - where it goes. Our ancestors were really lucky.
What part of no monkeys/apes do you have difficulty understanding?
Agree with dolphins, just imagine humanity returning to earth and being able to interbreed with these glorious creatures.
what the fuck
Kinda wanna fuck a dolphin now. They also have sex for enjoyment like us and are very intelligent. Love to have some kinky underwater, inter-species fun.
>Humans leave Earth. What species on Earth have the best chance of evolving enough to catch up to where humans are at right now?
It's a three-way war between the Dolphins, Elephants and Asians.
Don't they have some sort of chemical that makes you cum super hard?
Kinda want to fuck a dolphin now kappa
PLEASE tell me there is porn or at least rule 34 of this! God I wanna fuck a dolphin now.
E621 and furaffinity are your friends now, welcome to the yiff club, sicko
No fur tho. That's why it's awesome.
Why are we discussing fucking a dolphin?
I want to see it though. For scientific reasons, of course.
I wonder if they'd like it. Would they give some resistance and go along? Would it ride you are let you do missionary? How would the physics work underwater? Would it give you a blowjob and would it be too toothy? Would it use it's tongue? Would it let you do anal? Would the blowhole feel better and would it let you fuck it?
They not only like it, but can fall in love.
mirror.co.uk
People will say either Dolphins or Apes some might say Cephalopods I'm going to go for broke though and say Corvids.
Crows,ravens,magpies,etc are known to be exceptionally intelligent among birds and even many other animals being known to use tools (using cars/rocks to crack seeds and nuts, getting humans to open water bottles for them) they have complex social interactions, are capable of speaking and might even possess the capacity for language. I could see distant crow descendants forming tribes and primitive civilizations.