Re:How are humans going to become extinct?
by fabriceleal on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @04:39AM
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Dinosaurs are a rather large group of animals (and you can join primitive birds with more "reptilian" dinosaurs, but I digress...) and humans are a subspecies (homo sapiens sapiens), comparing dinosaurs' extinction with human's extinction its almost like comparing mammals extinction with white shark extinction.
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Re:How are humans going to become extinct?
by vixen99 on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @05:28AM
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That's a parochical view, valid only in the context of the classificatory scheme to which you allude and which we find useful in certain respects at present. To use Nassim Taleb's metaphor, humans have turned out to be evolutionary black swans.