Bonus meme
Nice horns you got there, I can make a throwable one that I can replace in seconds.
I claim hax
Don’t worry, animals. It’s temporary.
I dunno. I think the animals should worry. The Anthropocene is going to mean millions of species of things cease to exist because we’re changing the global climate.
I hope it doesn’t turn out that way.
It already has.
Yes, there’s been irreparable harm done, but we’re not done yet.
I fucking loved this video as a kid.
Wooooooooooo
IT’S EVOLUTION BABY!!!
Lol, sauce?
I threw pinecones at birds that were picking at the window for some reason. I think it short circuits their brain to see an object coming at them. They haven’t been back since.
This is the reaction for most animals
Including humans. I’m not going near the person launching pinecones at my head from their yard.
I thought it was our ability to just run and run and run that broke evolution.
Losing our hairy bodies and using our signature ability “Sweat” really did a number on all those that are faster than us in a sprint.
I think we have a lot going for us.
Except that hubris.
A lot going against us for sure.
Mostly us.
True enough. But given that we are going to drive ourselves to extinction in a geological blink of an eye, it really didn’t do us that great. Should have evolved into a crab.
I mean, you can’t really say that we’re going to drive ourselves to extinction, until we’ve been driven to extinction. Most things people list as likely to do this, climate change, nuclear war, are things that could conceivably do so, but honestly aren’t likely to. Destroy civilization maybe, but that just takes disrupting supply lines hard enough. Extinction means nobody, anywhere on the planet survives, even if it’s some little pocket of people in some corner of the world whose climate is good after warming is considered and which isn’t a target of any nuclear arsenals, because in a number of generations such a little pocket can grow to repopulate the planet again. It’s not an impossible thing for sure, but killing off a species capable of surviving in almost any climate zone found on the planet, with the ability to manipulate the growth of it’s own food supply, and adapt new tools actively in response to problems within a single generation, is a difficult task.
Crab…people?
Stormlight Archive moment
Humana have been around for several million years. Clothing alone is what, 3.5 million years old?
At least 40,000 years, but more likely longer; the best estimate of when body lice diverged from head lice is ~107,000 years ago
I think the invention of engineering is what finally broke evolution, but there are a lot of factors we have that bootstrapped us to that point. Walking upright on two legs is more efficient at the price of raw power. Many creatures can outrun a human but no land animal can come close to our jogging range. A Cheetah can go 60 miles an hour for a minute or so but a human can go 10 miles per hour for 6 hours straight. It also frees our forelimbs, already made flexible, versatile and dexterous by our distant tree swinging ancestors, for tool use. Funnily enough, another ability that is unparalleled in nature is our ability to throw things with accuracy and power. You also need pretty good hands to master fire, and thus cooking, and thus unlocking extra nutrients from the food you catch, which provides for that very hungry brain of ours. A few millennia later and we’ve pretty much got control of the biosphere itself.
Plus, great booties and boobies
Being hyper violent also helps
science. realizing our monkey brain needs help to actually try to be rational.
Engineering predates what we now call science by millennia.
We’re not the only ones that can do that. Wolves, dingoes and other wild dogs, and hyenas are also persistence predators. All species of the Homo genus were persistence predators but we’re the only one still around.
I read that as " wolves, dragons" and was very confused for a moment.
Uh no, evolution isn’t broken. And humans still evolve too, like getting still more gracile, some children not having wisdom teeth anymore and so on.
It’s definitely these two things plus our ability to digest meat as well as plant matter, plus our communication and social skills plus…
yes. cooked meat in fire in particular
Tools and making tools. We fucking tricked stones into thinking
Aren’t some wolves also persistent hunters?
In packs, but they are also hunting in cold climates where they can lose heat a little easier. However, many dogs do have pretty good endurance, but I doubt they could do a marathon.
It was actually cooking. We learned to grind up meat instead of chewing it, small teeth was the first step.
apparently there’s evidence that spitting cobras evolved specifically to deal with stick and rock-wielding primates
wait til you see what i can do with a flint and a sharp stick, these thumbs are excellent, if you have the means
Ok but why is he kinda hot?
How do you think we got the Neanderthal DNA in the mix?
really? I thought Neanderthal and Homosapiens can’t breed together?
They can and they did. We know it since a decade. Modern people have about 2% neanderthal DNA in us
Not any more, but when they were alive they could.
THANK YOU
Not gonna lie we kinda broke the meta game
s/rock/fire
Throw a fire
I am not sure where y’all evolved, but you skipped a few thousand years and a whole bunch of sharpened sticks.