Imagine if spiders could tell each other stories and understand ideas about nations, tools, and money.
How to become the king
Submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 months ago
daddy32@lemmy.world 5 months ago
See “Children of Time” for the expansion of this idea.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ok, but wouldn’t it be an adventure if octopuses could do the same.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Isn’t “apes throwing things” why cobras developed the ability to spit venom?
tahoe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cobras probably existed looong before any ape did, so that sounds unlikely!
dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure, but did cobras that spit venom exist before us stick throwing primates? Apparently not really. Spitting Conrad seem to emerge around the same time H. Erectus moved into Asia
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, to defend against apes bearing sticks.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It didn’t really take off until we invented the atlatl. It’s a specially shaped tool that let’s you throw a spear farther - like that tennis ball flinger for playing fetch with your dog.
That’s when we went “now I can kill that fucking water buffalo without getting close enough for it to wreck my shit.”
TwanHE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Already has the best range stats out of all the classes, uses the intelligence stat to boost it even further.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s a neanderthal though. We offed them too!
Fleur__@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Projectiles op please nerf
hperrin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Throwing rocks is really useful too when you never get tired while running. So we’ll chase down an animal for twenty kilometers then pelt it with rocks.
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Animals: “ow! Ok, I get that this is a- ow! good huntin- ow! Hunting strategy and I’m too tired to- ow! Run. But this is- ow! Just humiliating.”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Another animal later: “oh these ones just have very straight sticks, at least that won’t be as bad as the rocks–WTF THEY THREW IT INSIDE ME!”
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We really do break the balance of the game. Aimed accuracy of throwing things, high level detailed communication and social interaction, that same vocal range means we can imitate animal sounds to trick them into running off cliffs, can literally run animals to death, very high level intelligence allowing planning and tool use.
One or two of these would make us an op apex predator.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
uh yes, I can totally do all that!