Who's the pinnacle of evolution? The cockroach or the human?

[bubble_tea]

Think about it... The cockroach is capable of living for months without food, remaining alive headless for weeks at a time, resistant to radiation. Why do you think humans are more evolved than cockroaches?

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The cockroach

The human

[Nicolás25]

neither each animal has evolved to what allows it to survive to birds the answer is flying and to the man it's intelligence/technology and the bird has evolved it's flight far more times than humans have evolved capacity of thought yet both creatures have managed to survive and pass on their genes but that doesn't mean that in certain circumstances one has more advantage just look at the dinosaurs the biggest things on land you would have thought they were going to survive forever but under circumstances of an asteroid hitting earth they went extinct similarly a cockroach could beat a human at survival in a dessert with no food or water but a human could beat a cockroach at survival in space thanks to technology of space suits and space shuttles.

[bubble_tea]

"a human could beat a cockroach at survival in space thanks to technology of space suits and space shuttles"

sure, but a cockroach wouldn't feel the need to go to space when it could survive on earth, much like that little buddy in wall-e that stayed behind.

humans would only leave their planet after they've destroyed it. and there isn't even a guarantee that they will find another planet to live on that they can reach before they run out of food, water and fuel.. to me, the only unrealistic thing in that movie is that they could survive in a space shuttle for hundreds of years xD

[Nicolás25]

alright but you understood what i was saying right?

[Findesemana]

evolution isn't about pinnacles...

i think human superiority is overrated anyhow... ok we have culture and language... but still doesn't mean we truly are the smartest out there..

[Nicolás25]

this guy knows

[bubble_tea]

ok, but can cockroaches still evolve? humans certainly still can.

[Nicolás25]

@Asker yes all animals have the capacity of evolving from generation to generation.

[Findesemana]

yes... all species do evolve by definition...

[Nicolás25]

except if it was asexual reproduction than it is just an exact replica of the original animal.

[Findesemana]

all species do... each member of each species has unique DNA...

[AshleyMD]

Neither. As tempting as it is to say cockroaches there are better creatures on Earth then them, examples: creatures that live in the underwater vents, they live under extreme pressure and extreme heat, which is something a cockroach or a human couldn't do.
There are creature with better use of their body, there are creature with far superior vision, smell, taste, sight and so on than both.
But at the end of the day every creature has evolved to their environment and will all suffer in an environment far different from theirs. The only exception to this is certain strands of bacteria, they pretty much flourish nearly everywhere, so maybe anti-bacterial resistant bacteria.

[kangy]

Vote B,
human race continue to live despite all the destruction they cause on earth.

[Telisha]

My vote is for the cockroach... they will out live us all lol

[Editor]

All of the advantages you listed for cockroaches are shared by rocks.

Humans can change their environment, adapt to the environment, make plans, work cooperatively, and pass down knowledge for thousands of years. I could go on but that ought to suffice.

[bubble_tea]

I didn't know rocks were living creatures.

[doodler0706]

Lol go humans ! The only downside is that we can singlehandedly wipe out our own species through greed and arrogance. But other than that...

[kep79]

If we can't colonize other planets or kill all the cockroaches, it's the cockroach. Can cockroaches colonize other planets?

[bubble_tea]

why do they want or have to colonize other planets when the earth is all they need to live? :P

[kep79]

then we colonize other planets, destroy earth with a nuclear war, and then we'll be the pinnacle of evolution

[mistninja314]

www.hostgeek.net.br/.../Terra-formars-capa-2.jpg terraformars ^^ says roaches baby

[SurströmmingLover]

How dare you even question this?
Of course it's THE COCKROACH. Cockroaches have spent many years in forming their civilisation, developing technology and imporving science. People are a bunch of zerrows compared to the fantastic cockroaches.

[ForgottenDreams]

First. We use tools and have preset evolution stages in are DNA. We also are the first in evolution history to have thumbs and use over 60% of our brain's.

[bubble_tea]

nope, monkeys have thumbs too.

[Marstalk]

Well they are susceptible to radiation just more resistant that humans. Humans are considered the peak because well we decided, though I do agree. We seem to have developed far enough to develop technology to help us adapt.

[Arrowdynamics]

Until the roach get a written language and learn mathematics I think we're on top.

[bubble_tea]

I don't think written language or mathematics will help you when the whole world get contaminated with radiation from nuclear bombs.

[Arrowdynamics]

This is not true, a roach will die from a rad blast as well. A roach can take a larger blast of radiation but it will die too. Human are smart enough to build some sort of radiation containment look at Japan when that nuclear facility was destroyed the nuclear waste would have been much worst if it weren't for nuclear radiant containment build by humans. My vote still humans.

[kheserthorpe]

There is no pinnacle.

[Sigma88]

Roaches will outlive mankind, so...

[Tokana]

I eat cockroaches... ergo humans are.

[youknowitt]

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