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Periplaneta Sapiens
The rain and wind further eroded the evidence that humans had oncedominated the Earth.
A cockroach scuttled by. Even in the scant thousand years since humanshad disappeared, Darwinian evolution had changed it. The cockroachheld itself on its hind and middle legs, while it's forelegsdexterously solved the problem of extracting a morsel of food from acrack.
Another cockroach approached. The two insects greeted each other withinterlocked antennae. Evolution had been at work here too. Theirsocial interactions more complex and their intelligence greater.
From the ruins of one civilization, an even greater civilization would grow.
From Guest Contributor Ross Clement
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