Philosophic Dialogue I had with my self in Kierkegaard Class. Anyone want to tackle this? Please?

[randomeep]

if a new species springs fourth every couple of hundred thousand years to every couple of million years or so, are we overdue? why do new species come about? is the second coming just the next species in the line? are we the second coming of a species past? if so, what is to come next

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[struzzo]

The way that I was taught that a new species comes about is, a part of a particular species gets sectioned off and develops in accordance with their surroundings to the point that they develop so differently from their ancestors that they are classified as a new species. The question as to whether we will be killed off by the next species of homo sapiens or homo sapiens sapiens or what ever it is we currently are seems silly. How exactly are they going to be killing us off? Wouldn't it just be us evolving?
I have also heard that they will look just like us, but with bigger heads (due to brain size).

[randomeep]

we lived with our predecessors for several thousand years before they disappeared. it took us a long time to kill them.
but, in fact, how speciation occurs is not quite my point…i think.

[struzzo]

I'm sorry, I was paying more attention to your conversation with your creator than the original point to the post. I wanted to address, more so, the idea that we would be "killed off" than anything else. I think of it as more of a - we would be replaced.(try not to think so violently)

[randomeep]

but how do you replace that which doesn't want to go away?

[randomeep]

and just because it was an internal dialogue doesn't mean it was a conversation with God ^_^