After humans, we know which species could control the Earth

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With global warming, it is the survival of Man as a species that is at stake. But if we imagine for a second an Earth without humans, which species would be capable of taking control of the Earth ?

While this question may seem quite fanciful, scientists have nevertheless sought to answer it. A very serious study, conducted within the prestigious University of Oxford, maintains that the obvious replacements at the head of the Earth are … octopuses.

Our cousins ​​the great apes would have made ideal candidates, but according to the research of Professor Tim Coulson, it is indeed the octopuses that could take control of the Earth. For good reason, the scientist explains that these animals are particularly intelligent.

Octopuses are particularly capable of solving problems or manipulating objects, proof of their cognitive capacity above average in the animal world. In a changing world, such as ours today, the exceptional adaptability of octopuses could be an undeniable advantage over other animal species.

Octopuses on Earth?

Professor Coulson's work even suggests that in the long term, octopuses would have the evolutionary capacity to change habitat and become a terrestrial species. Cephalopods are already capable of breathing outside of water for short periods.

As individuals become exposed to the outside world, they could develop genetic mutations, leading them after millions of years to definitively leave the marine world for the terrestrial world.

This transformation is a condition sine qua none for the domination of octopuses over other human species in a more or less distant future.

Primates: the big losers?

Although they seem to be the designated successors of the human species, primates and great signs are not the candidates ideal for conquering the Earth. And for several reasons. The main one would be the inability of primates to survive climate change.

With global temperature warming on Earth, monkeys would be among the first victims. Their habitat would be constantly threatened by forest fires and summer heat waves would decimate them. Faced with such a climate upheaval, Professor Coulson assures that they will not put up a strong resistance to the octopuses when it comes to taking control of the Earth.

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