species Homo sapiens pushed you out of the evolutionary stream that
was simply going too fast for you to catch up. We once thought we could
be the cause of your extinction, since our genetic interactions would have made you too vulnerable. We have recently found, however, that you
were long gone before our arrival. More than 100,000 years had passed
before Homo sapiens walked in your footsteps. Our guilt was relieved, but a strange sense of loneliness was left in its place. We were left flapping
our wings in pigeon superstition, asking—what did I do to deserve to be alone?
The co-existence of multiple hominins was a historical norm that we
broke, being the only Homo roaming the Earth today. We are alone in our
species. This is why we crave so much to know you, our fellow hominins. With our ability to control evolution, the arrow of time can yield to our will and go in any direction. With a few mutations here and there, we could
revive your species from the dust in which we found you. We would not need to stare into the hollow eyes of ancient skulls, but instead probe and prod your body and flesh to answer our questions. If we could
meet, would our species seem strange to you? We can see that in some ways you are like us, but our ways are vastly different. Would we seem
backward to you? Would you be angry with us, for what we have done?
Would you be jealous that from at least 25 proto-humanoids, we were the ones that escaped extinction and survived? Nature recognizes the value
of cruel destruction of entire species, allowing others to thrive in its place. Would you be able to see that value in your own destruction?
Homo sapiens is egoistic enough to believe that 14 billion years of the known universe, 4.5 billion years of Earth’s existence, 4 billion years
of life’s evolution and at least five major extinction cycles all served to
create the likes of us as the be-all and end-all of the entirety of evolution. We are paying the price for Nature’s jump. Our species is plagued by
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