according to evolution we split from apes and became human beings, over time. then how come donkeys, or any other animals, did not split? and become intelligent like us? why are we the only ones?
intelligence is not a survival value, there are plenty of dumb animals that have still survived.
still no answers...the best one so far is that we were lucky...roflllll
Edric Ng [E.D]
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evolution make no sense :) ty for fighting for bible
Anonymous
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If you really wanted to know, you'd have asked in the Biology section. By asking this question in the context of Religion/spirituality you, whether you mean to or not, give the impression of being a creationist moron.
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>then how come donkeys, or any other animals, did not split? and become intelligent like us?
Those are two separate questions. They did split, but they didn't develop our level of intelligence. There are several potential reasons for this:
a) Lack of ability to manipulate the environment. Humans have hands and can use tools. This creates a synergy where increased intelligence leads to increasing benefits from the ability to manipulate things.
Donkeys, having hooves, would not receive such synergistic benefits and so, intelligence would not provide as great a reproductive advantage.
b) Apes already have a high degree of intelligence, showing social cooperation, empathy and rudimentary communication systems. Humans aren't really a brand new thing. We're a continuation of a tendency that goes way back in our ancestral line.
Donkeys, on the other hand, have gone down a different line. For one, they're herbivores and so did not develop cooperative hunting strategies.
c) A certain degree of random chance and difference in ecological niches. Equines have a simple strategy for survival that doesn't require all that much intelligence. We don't. Humans are slow and weak. Without intelligence, we wouldn't have lasted five minutes.
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>why are we the only ones?
We're not. As mentioned, significant levels of intelligence have evolved in apes. In addition, dolphins, dogs and pigs also show some signs of intelligence. This is probably a result of their social organization and perhaps influenced by human domestication.
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We are a bit of a blip. Intelligence has not done us that many favours really. OK, we have medicines and life saving technology but we work very hard and long to afford all the things we think we need and then work longer and harder to insure, maintain and clean them all whilst our chimpanzee cousins live an idle playful life and are just as happy. We also developed ways and reasons to kill each other in greater numbers than any other animal. Note that all other hominids have become extinct and we can only hope that we humans become more peaceable and rational before we make ourselves extinct too. Is intelligence a beneficial change? Time will tell. Donkeys do not need big brains to thrive in their environment. They eat grass and have a coat to keep them warm.
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We just got lucky. We had the right mutations, we were in the right environment, we had the right social group to foster and advance us to this point.
Intelligence is not a survival value????? Are you crazy?? All other animals work on a fight response they run or fight, but they can't think about it they just do. We can think about what to do a head of time. Other stupid animals have not built anything let alone all the technology and infrastructure we have, that helps us survive.
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Who says donkeys are not intelligent ... they are compared to us not very intelligent however.
Apes are already very intelligent to human standards and humans just became even more smart then their fellow apes.
I do not know why i am trying to explain this anyway , its not like im having any effect.