SaltSlasher

Wow that is amazing. Its just like with the dodo bird, you got to adapt to the world. What exactly was the main reason they became extinct? The video i watched implied that we would kill them because of territorial issues, like with hunting. It just amazes me to think of a long line of men and apes, all built up to become us. Like the video said that it was our actions that really jolted our evolution. Like walking on hind legs, controlling fire, and using tools. Like they call it evolution, but from lucy to us, has each new generation been an upgraded form of the previous?

When i meant conquer, I was more refering to when our modern humans became the only species left. I didn't really mean to imply that we went out at war with all the other primates for the last 3 million years or so, even though we did quarrel with them. Even though I am interested in man's lineage, I really don't think that man was put on earth to rule it. Cause obviously we weren't men when we first showed up. I guess to re-state my question, what are some of the reasons why our line never became extinct, but other close species did? When i think about it, I just see our family of primates having this potential to become advanced. So even in the oldest of our ancestors, it shows by our innovated ways to adapt and to learn. Those two things is what i think separated us from the rest of the pack. In my mind we are like the dinosaurs, we rule as earth's mightiest species. Even though we do fall victim to the natural ways of death by volcanoes and lions. Either way in the end, it is inevitable that the species known as our modern man is doomed to extinction...eventually! Not even the power of greyskull can change that! Whether it be fallout, asteroids or another ice age, it will happen sooner or later. But when i do use the word conquer, I am referring to the third definition in the merriam webster dictionary.

I got into evolution a couple months ago after spending years tracing my family name, but then it changed when i watched a documentary on the evolution of us. It was hard for me to take it all in to understand why! I grasp the concept really easily, cause i have a science brain. The first thing I ask myself, is, Out of all the lines of close species, why did our direct line conquer all, why? I watched the video, showing Lucy taking her first steps out of the tree to the next. I am not sure if its still accurate, but the ape like animal named lucy is an old relative, her basic mind, is still imprinted in how ours works. The fact that we don't have to spend are days fighting to survive against the rest of the world, has given our species the chance to grow in the fields of, everything! I have a few questions that I first thought, that would explain this "Why" we made it, and why we conquered the world against every other animal. The one thing that i keep going back to, is our mind. Look at lucys mind compared to others, and look at our minds to others. I am really intriuged in the different places/times that we did something different, that lead us to where we are now. Neanderthals could have lived side by side, even to this day, but we secured global dominance by riding of them! Today we have a lot of tendency's that come with being a human. For example, the fact that I naturally will go for the best "mate". Does the fact that are natural breeding selection involves us picking the best we can get, does that have anything to do with our "Dominance". From what i have seen, our direct line has been innovators, from walking, to tools, to speech and to artistically expressing ourselves. I think that if you look at the past "us", it explains a lot answer as to what we are! I learned more about myself in 9 minutes watching that documentary, than i did at 9 years in church! I didn't mean to ramble but, if anyone else has more facts, theorys or what ever on the different things us humans did that kept our line living all those years!