Periplaneta Sapiens
Feb 1st, 2016 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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The rain and wind further eroded the evidence that humans had once
dominated the Earth.
A cockroach scuttled by. Even in the scant thousand years since humans
had disappeared, Darwinian evolution had changed it. The cockroach
held itself on its hind and middle legs, while it’s forelegs
dexterously solved the problem of extracting a morsel of food from a
crack.
Another cockroach approached. The two insects greeted each other with
interlocked antennae. Evolution had been at work here too. Their
social interactions more complex and their intelligence greater.
From the ruins of one civilization, an even greater civilization would grow.
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