Since evolution can’t actually create a new species, my guess would be bonobo chimpanzees. They could actually develop human-level intelligence without becoming another species.
Evolution would just happen all over again and chimps would eventually become a similar looking species as homosapiens. Remember we share 98% of a chimps DNA, all it takes is 2% and you get space travel and nuclear weapons.
Having owned many of them, I’m not going to go with the obvious and say chimps, I’m gonna say rats. I think they could really do harm if they took an evolutionary leap forward. I had one rat that was so smart he scared me.
Chimps or gorillas.
Too bad chimps do nothing but swing in trees eating bananas all day.
Apes, including monkeys & chimps, because they are the only ones with opposable thumbs with which to grasp & use things.
Since evolution can’t actually create a new species, my guess would be bonobo chimpanzees. They could actually develop human-level intelligence without becoming another species.
If the extinction event is a nuclear war, cockroaches.
dogs
Evolution would just happen all over again and chimps would eventually become a similar looking species as homosapiens. Remember we share 98% of a chimps DNA, all it takes is 2% and you get space travel and nuclear weapons.
Bacteria? We have abundance of them everywhere even in the remotest and harshes regions in the world.
This is very theoretical (impossible actually) But to play along. I would have to say pigs! They are very (smart?) creatures.
Having owned many of them, I’m not going to go with the obvious and say chimps, I’m gonna say rats. I think they could really do harm if they took an evolutionary leap forward. I had one rat that was so smart he scared me.