And that is only going to put them in more competition with what Akin calls the real “apex predator” — Homo sapiens.

Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/09/04/endangered-red-wolves-need-space-to-stay-wild-but-theres-another-predator-in-the-way-humans/

A virus that affects everything other than Homo sapiens infects every organism in the Kingdom Animalia, and they in turn quadruple in size and turn on humanity.

Source: https://metalinjection.net/lists/cattle-decapitations-travis-ryan-names-the-four-ways-hed-like-the-world-to-end

Homo sapiens began migrating out of Africa some 200,000 years ago.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64862607?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

The earliest-known Homo sapiens fossils date from roughly 300,000 years ago in Morocco.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/zambia-find-shows-humans-have-built-with-wood-for-476000-years/article67340817.ece

The incredible amounts of work facilitated by cheap energy powering practical machinery is the fundamental reason we can sustain 8 billion (and counting) Homo sapiens on planet Earth.

Source: https://energycentral.com/c/ec/tesla-master-plan-part-3-teardown-energy-system-modeler