I'll throw together a theory for you, bonerboy.
The presence of one species of sentient beings retards the progress of any other potential sentient beings.
Use whatever word you want to use for what we are, sentient, intelligent, self-aware, whatever. I'm going to use the term sentient. I'll define it as those special human qualities unique to us in this world: I think therefore I am, theory of mind, language etc.
Sentience is an evolutionary milestone. Once a species reaches sentience they became the Apex Predator/dominant species permanently. It gives them the trump card against any other species. A disaster must happen for them to relinquish control. Whether its global warming, viral epidemic, or asteroids.
It would be impossible for another to develop at all. To reach the level of sentience a species would have to begin having the ability to think about the future. To plan what future actions would be in the best interest to surviving and thriving in the long term. The fact that another sentient being like humans exist is counter to the best interest of a species that is potentially developing sentience. We own everything. We've saturated the ecosystem. That puts any potential sentient species in direct competition with us. Taking back any ground against us would require aggression. Planned aggression is the first step of sentience. Any planned aggression would be immediately squashed by those that already have sentience.
Currently any land or territory gained to other species is that which we give back to them (pussy liberal green faggots).
Take a look at the most intelligent (and most potentially sentient) creatures that coexist with us. Those that can be tamed have had any independence bred away from their gene pool. Those that cannot be are partitioned into areas we deem what is fair for them to have. If a band of monkey's started walking out of the woods and doing guerrilla attacks against us what do you think would happen?
Like these wild dogs, and other examples including bears and raccoons... evolution will inevitably take the shortest path to successfully adapting to thrive and survive. Rather than take on the species that is already sentient, the best way to survive is to adapt to scavenge the waste that the sentient race provides.
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There are two exceptions
One exception may be the ocean and dolphins, arguably we don't live in the same ecosystem as them. Recent pop culture science argues that they are a lot more intelligent than we may think they are.
The more likely exception is sentient life created from sentient life. Genetic engineering or advanced artificial intelligence.
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If two separate sentient species evolved in different ecosystems (or different planets) come into contact with each other and they mutually believe they are not a threat to each others home ecosystems they can coexist and may even eventually cohabit each others ecosystems.
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try not to jerk off to this bullshit, blonde
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