Quote Originally Posted by ahabion
Lions, hyenas, ants, and many other community type of animals all claim territorial boundaries and defend them exclusively from other groups of the same species or against any that may threaten their survival. That is primarily instinctive, to protect, defend, and expand/grow.

So again, the question is still posed, how come evolution has not yet brought up anything that can surpass humans? I'm not even referring to anything divine in nature, just want an answer.

You can teach many animals to do something but it still isn't instinctive. Tigers can be taught to perform in a circus and dogs to sit... all examples of classic conditioning.
Because evolution is essentially defined as "change over time". The window of time that human consciousness has been allowed to flourish is nothing, compared to the amount of time that has passed before our consciousness possessed self-awareness.

From the perspective of a homo sapien it is easy to ask the question that you posed "How come evolution has not yet brought up anything that can surpass humans?" And the answer is quite simple.

Due to fact that we are currently the fiercest apex predator ever to exist, it is easy to wonder why in the absence of a supernatural deity we would continue to exist. Why if evolution is true haven't we been surpassed yet? This is simple because, the window of time that defines our existence is so tiny, that we have no real way of fully appreciating the changes that are being made in a broader sense as space-time continues...


We as humans do not posses much in the way naturally occurring physical prowess, and yet despite this, we are able to harness powers that nothing on this earth, not even prior humans have ever imagined the likes of... surely then our abilities are not merely a result of our physical abilities alone, but the manifestations of our imagination in coherent co-operative existence with our accumulative knowledge.

Evolution will come up with some material manifestation superior to humans, but only if humans continue to define their existence as members of a tribe... as "immaterial", and exempt from the laws of the nature that other members of our species have been able to clearly observe.