I was referring to those members of the species still engaged in the battle for survival, not those who are decomposing. (BTW, I want my ashes placed under an apple tree or sprinkled on the waves.)

My point was that as a species, we have demonstrated the capacity to outsmart other species at least to the extent of being able to more or less round them up, rather than being driven into flight by them.

There is a certain amount of blind and bestial stupidity that gets used in this pursuit, but at least we do not live in terror of other carnivores much anymore.

Like Microsoft: we may not be the best or the smartest and are certainly not the most elegant or most graceful, but we are the dominant group

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