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These Animals Are More Intelligent Than You Think

The notion of imagining a world without humans can be both intriguing and complex. Despite our remarkable attributes such as high intelligence, fashion sense, culinary skills, and smartphones (despite occasional password forgetfulness), what if we were to suddenly vanish? What species might step forward to inherit our roles, develop comparable skills, and construct complex societies? Scientists have ventured into this thought-provoking territory, aided by modern gene sequencing technology and our understanding of evolution.