Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution : Nature Ecology & Evolution. File:Map-of-human-migrations.jpg. What Species Would Become Dominant On Earth If Humans Died Out? In a post-apocalyptic future, what might happen to life if humans left the scene?
After all, humans are very likely to disappear long before the sun expands into a red giant and exterminates all living things from the Earth. Assuming that we don’t extinguish all other life as we disappear (an unlikely feat in spite of our unique propensity for driving extinction), history tells us to expect some pretty fundamental changes when humans are no longer the planet’s dominant animal species. So if we were given the chance to peek forward in time at the Earth some 50m years after our disappearance, what would we find? Which animal or group of animals would “take over” as the dominant species? Would we have a Planet of the Apes, as imagined in popular fiction?
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