To put it simply, the possibility is not very large, or that there is only a theoretical possibility, but in fact it is impossible to happen, why?
First, the Sun and the Earth will not leave enough time for the Earth to evolve again. The life span of the sun is about 10 billion years, and today the sun has been burning for almost 5 billion years, with about 5 billion years to live. But don't think that the Earth still has 5 billion years of good times.
As the solar nucleus fuses, the luminosity, heat, and volume of the sun will continue to increase, and with it, the temperature of the earth's surface will continue to rise. We now know that even a 1 degree increase in the average temperature of the Earth would have a significant impact on the Earth's surface ecosystems.
So, instead of waiting for the sun to die in 5 billion years, in about a few hundred million years, the earth will be uninhabitable due to rising surface temperatures, and there may be a few species that are extremely adaptable, but most of them will become extinct because of this.
Second, there is only one direction in the evolution of life: adaptation to the environment, and there are too many ways to adapt to the environment, and wisdom is only one of them. At the same time, evolution is all passive selection, and it is not something you can evolve to be what you want to be. The essence of evolution is actually genetic mutation, and the mutated genes will be screened by nature layer by layer, and the mutated genes that remain in the end are genes that can adapt to the environment.
In other words, in order to evolve intelligence, it first needs to be mutated to mutate the wisdom gene, and then this gene can pass the selection of nature, and only then will the wisdom be retained.
In a more brutal reality, nature actually does not favor wisdom, and even hates wisdom, because wisdom means a large brain capacity, and the brain consumes the most energy. For the vast majority of species, instead of supplying more energy to the brain to improve intelligence, it is far better to supply energy to other organs of the body to obtain stronger explosive power and faster speed.
This is also why species such as bacteria, which we call "lower species", have survived on the earth for billions of years without evolving intelligence, and species such as rats and cockroaches have also survived for hundreds of millions of years without evolving intelligence. And the most talked-about dinosaurs ruled the earth for hundreds of millions of years and did not evolve intelligence, why is that?
Rats, cockroaches, dinosaurs and other species have adapted to the environment at that time, and there is no motivation to evolve towards intelligence.
Third, there are many species that are very similar to humans, such as apes such as orangutans. Chimpanzees are genetically more than 98% genetically similar to humans, and chimpanzees and humans also share a common ancestor, dating back to apes thousands of years ago. So after the extinction of humans, will chimpanzees, which are very similar to humans, evolve **class?
Unfortunately, the same cannot be true, or this possibility is only theoretical.
On this issue, many people will always subconsciously think that human beings are "higher species" and other chimpanzee species are "lower species", in fact, from a biological point of view, there is no "high and low division" in any species, but the complexity of life itself is high and low.
So, don't think that humans are more advanced than chimpanzees, and don't think that humans are the species that evolves faster than chimpanzees!
To put it simply, humans and chimpanzees are actually "cousins", and on the road of evolution, humans and chimpanzees have just gone to different branches. For example, if your grandfather gave birth to 4 sons, and each son gave birth to 4 sons, then your grandfather has 16 grandchildren, and 12 of these 16 grandchildren are your cousins, and these 12 cousins and cousins are your "cousins".
Whether it is humans, chimpanzees or other species, they have evolved in their own unique way, all the way to the extreme of their species. From this point of view, we can of course say that chimpanzees are better evolved.
Moreover, even if all human beings are wiped out, there is a high probability that bacteria and other microorganisms will not perish, so what reason do we have to say that "bacteria are not as evolved as humans, and bacteria are inferior to humans"?
Another point is that species such as chimpanzees are no less capable of adapting to their environment than humans, so why should they evolve ** species? Hungry?
Chimpanzees are certainly evolving, but not in humans.
If you take a detailed look at the evolutionary history of life on Earth and the history of human evolution, you will find that the emergence of any species, including humans, is accidental, especially the emergence of humans, an intelligent species, which requires a lot of luck. At its simplest, if it hadn't been for the asteroid impact 65 million years ago, dinosaurs would not have gone extinct, mammals and primates would not have had enough space to survive, and humans would not have been born.
In the long process of human evolution, it is actually full of all kinds of accidents, and human beings are also lucky enough to finally evolve. The ancestors of modern humans are Homo sapiens, and Homo sapiens defeated other races, such as Neanderthals, Denisovans, and many other Homo erectus, and finally stood out, but don't take it for granted that Homo sapiens won, in fact, Homo sapiens has also been on the verge of extinction several times, but Homo sapiens was lucky enough to be preserved in the end.
In the millions of years of human evolution, even a slight change in one of the countless links can cause a terrible butterfly effect, causing human ancestors to evolve in completely different directions, and human beings cannot be born.
Therefore, it is unrealistic to expect species such as chimpanzees to evolve into entirely new humans after the extinction of humans. Of course, theoretically, it cannot be ruled out that species such as chimpanzees will evolve into other types of intelligent species, and of course this is not very likely.
In fact, from an evolutionary point of view, human beings are "aliens", and wisdom does not make human beings appear noble, but will make human beings appear more "alternative", because nature does not favor wisdom, that is, intelligent species should not be born, and the emergence of human beings can be regarded as a "wrong operation" of nature!
From this point of view, it may also explain why humans have not discovered aliens so far, because nature does not like such things as intelligence, so it will filter out wisdom in various ways!
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