I don’t see a difference between a stone age tech. group of humans surviving the apocalypse and slowly repopulating the world and a different species (whether dogs, squirrels, or porpoises) doing the same thing.
See In Praise of Boredom and Sympathetic Minds: random evolved intelligent species are not guaranteed to be anything we would consider valuable.
See In Praise of Boredom and Sympathetic Minds: random evolved intelligent species are not guaranteed to be anything we would consider valuable.