The fishies look so anatomically incorrect and you can sort of see how they would one day evolve into the more common designs we are used to now. Evolution is so cool what's crazy is that those lifeforms took 100s of millions of years to get from what is in the animation to the life we see around us today.
Based on how much more complex life is today I believe the current era is the most complex in terms of the amount of diversity of life on the planet at a time. In my opinion evolution is also speeding up because look at how much more simpler life forms get the further back in time one goes.
I bet if humans went extinct, it would barely take 10 million years for the planet to evolve another life form as smart as humans.
I think that is a fascinating theory that most sci fi does not pursue often. That maybe there is a time period in a planet's evolutionary history where it can produce intelligent lifeforms, and once it gets there, it keeps pumping out smarter life forms over time forever until the death of the planet.
Like humans took 100s of thousands of years to evolve from their ancestor species. Perhaps the other apes that are still around will take far less time to get to our level, and the next group after them take ever less time, because evolutionary complexity and adaptability keeps going up the longer you leave a life form running till the heat death of the universe.
That's just a theory on my part though. Still cool.
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The internet has buckbroken my brain. I expected noseposting since "early" and "life" were included in the same sentence
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