12/27/2023 0 Comments 2002 space odyssey![]() With the advantage of tools, the apes can begin to kill animals and evolve from prey to predator. With the infusion of intelligence that allows manipulation of their physical dexterity, the apes can make tools. Lions and hyenas don’t have fingers or opposable thumbs, but the apes have not yet learned how to manipulate this advantage to establish superiority. That connection stimulates the ape toward a new level of consciousness that draws them inexorably to the next stage of evolutionary development: the ability to use the primary physical differentiation between them and the current kings of the African landscape to make tool. Eventually, one of the apes seems to make some sort of non-visceral connection with the monolith and this leads to a palpable connection. The alien and unfamiliar newcomer to their land does not seem to pose a threat, but approaches toward it are tentative anyway. Until the day the apes awaken to discover a large, black monolithic structure that wasn’t there when they went to sleep. Physical might makes rights in this strangely verdant yet desolate landscape and every day passes to another that will be just like the one before it and the one after it. The prehistorical world before man entered the picture is one of kill or be killed, survive or die. Ape-like progenitors of what will eventually evolve into homo sapiens enjoy vegetarian meals while using only their wits. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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