Who will be the next lord of the Earth in the future?
The Next Architects of Earth? Why Octopuses Could Inherit Our World Image create with AI. Coursey: Gemini Pro. The Next Architects of Earth? Why Oxford Professor Tim Coulson Believes Octopuses Could Inherit Our World In the grand narrative of life on Earth, humanity has played a leading role for a mere blink of geological time. But what comes after us? While post-apocalyptic fiction often imagines a world ruled by machines or reclaimed by nature, a compelling scientific hypothesis points to a far more intriguing successor: the octopus. Yes, Professor Tim Coulson, a renowned zoologist and biologist at the University of Oxford, has proposed that these enigmatic cephalopods could potentially become the next dominant, civilization-building species on Earth if humanity were to go extinct. This is not a prediction of an imminent takeover, but a fascinating thought experiment grounded in evolutiona...