"Look how far we've progressed since then Christian Louboutin Outlet! Yet after that same three million years, where will the pyramid makers be? I don't mind admitting it-the thought sometimes scares me." "It scares me. But remember, progress is never uniform Christian Louboutin Outlet Online; even after three million years, they may not be incomprehensibly far ahead of us. Perhaps there's a plateau for intelligence that can't be exceeded Christian Louboutin Outlet. They may already have reached it when they visited the Moon. After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value Red Bottom Shoes." "I can't accept that!" protested Bowman. "Surely Christian Louboutin Outlet, our intelligence has made us what we are-the most successful animals on the planet!" "As an anthropologist, I'm naturally biased in favor of Man Christian Louboutin Online For Sale. From the short-term point of view, intelligence has undoubtedly been an advantage. But what about geological time-and how do you define a 'successful' species Coach Outlet? My friend the curator of reptiles keeps reminding me that the dinosaurs flourished for more than a hundred million years Coach Outlet. And their I.Q.'s were distinctly minimal." "Well, where are they now? I don't see any around today Coach Factory Outlet." "True-but you can't call a hundred-million-year reign a failure Coach Outlet Store Online; it's a thousand times as long as H*** sapiens has existed. There may be an optimum level of intelligence, and perhaps we've already exceeded it Coach Outlet. Our brains may be too big-dooming us as Triceratops was doomed by his armor. He overspecialized in horns and spikes and plates Celine Bags; we overspecialized in cerebral cortex. The end result may be the same." "So you believe that as soon as a species reaches more than a certain level of intelligence Prada Outlet, it is heading for extinction?" "I don't state it as a fact, I'm merely pointing out the possibilities Celine Handbags. There's no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence-or even in life. Both may be random, accidental by-products of its operations, like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wing. The insect would fly just as well without them; our species might survive as long as-oh Louis Vuitton Outlet Online, the sharks, which haven't changed much in a couple of hundred million years-if we were a little less clever. Look at the daily newspapers, and the history of the whole twentieth century."
team building game ultrasound technician online e-cig concrete consultants
কোন মন্তব্য নেই:
একটি মন্তব্য পোস্ট করুন