Whose evolution is more iconic:

Humans from monkeys: the current dominant species evolved from a rather irrelevant group


or birds from dinosaurs: the group who dominates the air evolved from the most dominant group of all time


Choose wisely

Humans got naked. Birds ****ing formed feathers and learned how to fly.

Birds. Nobody care about humans except other humans

Birds are global as ****

i see the good sistrens of ATRL agree with me

Well birds still can't communicate with different languages or develop complex civilizations.

Avian Queen.

Why fly when our earlier sistren literally walked from Africa all the way down to Tierra del Fuego?

I don't mean to come off ignorant or anything, but honestly how did this whole 'birds evolved from dinosaurs' thing get started anyway? Aside from pterodactyls, I don't see it

Anyway I chose the 2nd option, but I want to change my answer because humans are capable of higher thought, while dinosaurs and birds are merely capable of instinct.

And if true, I eat dinosaurs for dinner. Me >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Clearly the bird evolution tho.

There's a reason why even though humans evolved from monkeys that there is only one species of human left

So much for "higher thought" bitches can't even stay alive

Pokemon evolution >

As a species humans are very weak but the total domination they now have? even causing mass extinctions like the mammuth. humans' current power >>>>.

and it's so weird how the only human species who survived has taken over the world, like don't think something weird happened to make them get out of Africa, destroy and replace all other human species and then take over the world?

Humans are hot af, so humans.

When humans inevitably extinguish themselves, birds will take over the world. Legit!

Birds.

so googling around, i read that humans have stopped evolving some thousands years ago because they lack evolutionary pressure. Our brains are becoming smaller and we are getting dumber... so it's only a matter of time for some other species to take over

My bet is on birds or ants. Birds have already demonstrated an incredible evolutionary push, and ants are the biggest species of animals by biomass

I voted humans because the word "iconic" was used. The primate to proto-human to human image is very well known and used in a lot of different media.

I think I first heard about chickens being the closest living thing to dinosaurs on Facebook about 3 years ago.

We literally evolved into the apex predator and they devolved into our pets, employees and dinner

I mean birds may be cooler, but their brains are the size of nickels

Velociraptor were thoughts to be extremely cunning creatures then they evolved into dumb birds? What kind of regression

Meanwhile we not only evolved physically, but our brains expanded and we were able to form societies and shape the world around us on a level that's never been seen before.

Humans >>>

Pterodactyls are not Dinosaurs, they're Pterosaurs.

Therapod Dinosaurs have too many anatomical, physiological and behavioral similarities to birds to be ignored. Have you ever seen an illustration of Deinonychus? It looks like an angry chicken.



Or look up Archaeopteryx. It's an early species of bird, but it still retains some of it's Raptor characteristics, like it's feet. Birds and Dinosaurs have many skeletal similarities.



Also, Dinosaurs had air sacs just like birds and that's something unique to birds nowadays. They've also compared a T Rex's soft tissue with that of a birds and came to the conclusion that Dinosaurs were more closely related to birds than to reptiles.

This is how evolution is studied. They look at skeletal remains, physiology and behavioral signs and they try to fill the gaps. With birds and Dinosaurs the connection was made fairly early, dismissed for a while, but then the theory came back into science mainstream because it couldn't be ignored.