Because these are good questions, I’ll answer some;
Physically weak
Humans are incredible long distance runners. We did a lot of hunting by “Chase it until it collapses”
9 months/15 years
Our brains take a loooooong time to mature, but it’s worth it. We can plan ahead without relying on survival instincts, and we keep making amazing discoveries like fire and clothes
and evolution isnt supposed to be perfect. we were not carefully designed.
Weren’t designed at all in in fact.
>developes precise eyes
>doesn’t know where to put the blood vessels
>“fuck it, we’ll put them in front of the receptors”
>blood vessels always visible
>“we’ll fix it in post”
>actually works out
>MFW they have to add a blind spot for vessel/nerve managementYou mean running the wires in front of the screen isn’t the best design??
You mean image sensor, not screen?
I suppose camera would be a closer equivalent, yeah. Although the “display” is our eyes themselves, so they both kinda work.
We spec’d for stamina, which turned out to be a hard counter to the current meta. We also have a flexible diet, fine motor control, excellent heat regulation, intricate vocalizations, and arguably best-in-class intelligence (although neanderthals did have larger brains, and other apes have better working memory).
But we are suffering from our success really. We were able to dominate even with an unoptimized build. So we have things like an appendix and other vestigial structures. Our spines are serviceable for bipedalism but are prone to developing issues and stress points. And our teeth don’t last nearly as long as much of the rest of our body without frequent external maintenance. And our young take a very long time to develop, to the point the actual birth happens basically as late as possible without being a guaranteed death sentence for the mother rather than when the child is ready for the world. Also, humans have a tremendously high ratio of penis to total body mass among primates, making you wonder what kind of freak was behind our character creation.
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere the appendix actually functions as backup storage for gut microbes.
Flexing on those other loser species with my opposable thumbs and ability throw stones
Also, this whole sweating system is actually very efficient water based cooling. Most land species don’t have anything that’s even close.
Once you see that evolution is like the laziest worker ever that wants to do nothing all day but needs the money, and natural selection as the boss that doesn’t give a shit and just gives him tasks and only cares if they are done. You will understand why things are the way they are.
“Why is the mop so moldy and disgusting?” Well because natural selection told evolution to mop the floors every day but never said to clean the mop, and the cleaning products are good enough to clean even when the mop is moldy, so there is no need to care about the moldiness of the mop.
Why did you mind go to moldy mops?
Bad experience?
Idk, just a good example since the mold can be thought of as mutations that are not wanted but don’t interfere with the survival of the species.
Omits that critical oxygen intake system overlaps with food intake system that can clog causing death. No redundancy on oxygen intake.
Lots of evidence for not-so-intelligent design.
Because it doesn’t select smarts, but adaptations, people tend to forget that for nature consciousness or smarts are just one more trait
Amon is under the impression that humans are designed, so they’re not in the smarter half of humanity
There’s a lot of good, but the devs def screwed up with the whole shared breathing / eating tubing. But at least the playing ground is partially even, with other species also at risk of randomly dying from the simple act of food intake.
The most screwed up one is the octopus, for some reason that brains are below their mouths so the esophagus goes through their brain. If they eat something too big they can give themselves a concussion.
That sounds so stupid, I absolutely believe it.
That’s a very British documentary as well isn’t it.
Lets just get a dead giraffe and cut it open in order to demonstrate something
That would never happen in the US there’d be too many complaints.
……what
Maybe in like the 50s lol
Best fact of the day!
Doesn’t have to be good, just has to be good enough
Tools.
Anon is a fucking retard
Reading this bunch of modern true-believers confidently preach the dogma of the hour (evolution yes! design no!) is nauseating.
The OP kinda used bad faith arguments, so everyone is pointing out ways that humans excel. They have a good point however. Humans are not superior. We are not the best species. Just about every animal, insect, or parasite can kill us or seriously harm us. Our bodies are not resilient, and have about a thousand built in flaws. Our ‘intelligence’ just creates new dangers that kill us.
Humans are great in many ways, but we do not sit at the top of everything. We are great at what we do and that’s it.
Edit: A lot of people aren’t too happy with me talking about the human race in the light I did. The point of the comment was not to say humans are trash and weak. It’s to say that we excel at many things, but we are still way behind other animals in many other ways. There is no one species that is the best. They all excel in many different and special ways. We aren’t the best species.
A group of fit humans who know what they’re doing can kill any animal on earth with sharp sticks.
This includes things like whales and woolly mammoths, which we hunted to near extinction or complete extinction using pointy sticks. Keep in mind that these animals were not only thousands of times stronger than a human, but the environments in which they lived were also completely alien to the one we evolved in. The ocean and the taiga can kill an unprepared human in just a few minutes simply by them existing in it, while the native animals are perfectly adapted to live there.
And despite all that we went onto their home turf and killed them all with pointy sticks.
We’re great at what we do, it’s true.
That’s despite all of our weaknesses. And there’s a lot of them.
Having an all purpose massive brain does make it easier to cover for our weaknesses so they might not be that obvious at first glance.
Just because we have some weakness and are not superhuman doesn’t mean we don’t excel.
That was the entire point I made.
We aren’t the best species.
No species is the “best.” Some are the best in certain aspects. Ours is the ability to manipulate our environment, which is also a double edged sword as we’re now killing ourselves with climate change.
