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Which animal will replace humans as Earth's dominant species? This scientist has an idea (www.earth.com)

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His answer is the octopus. What say you?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's totally possible some water-based species would find other crazy useful early techniques

Such as?

Even then, they are still short-lived, non-social animals who don't raise their young. How do individual discoveries compound into robust technologies?