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• YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought it was our ability to just run and run and run that broke evolution.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think we have a lot going for us.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except that hubris.

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    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Shame we won’t make it.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Plus, great booties and boobies

      Being hyper violent also helps

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      science. realizing our monkey brain needs help to actually try to be rational.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think the invention of engineering is what finally broke evolution

      While true, we can be more specific here what quality or trait allowed us to become engineers. Being able to engineer is by itself something that can even exist in genetic memory, instinctual. There are a lot of animals that do engineering, but have never come anywhere close to what humans do. Beavers, birds, ants and termites arguably are better engineers than most humans on an innate level. (I’ve also known some engineers who are incapable of some very basic life skills.)

      What separated us from evolutionary processes and also allowed us to become engineers is the capability to abstract information and use those abstractions to predict the future, extending our “reach” of influence into the further future than most animals can calculate. This required us to develop strong continuity of thought and experiences and with this also came the ability to analyze and compare complicated events to find patterns. This gave us a huge edge when we were surviving around predators that were able to easily dominate us. Nowadays these abilities mostly cause of mental health conditions as we try to use tools designed for navigating glaciers to navigate a world of social media, zoom meetings, electric car recalls and democratic electoral politics.

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We had the tall stride thing going, we had the super-endurance thing going already, we had gotten good at tool-use like many other primates, in that we could use sticks and rocks to beat things and poke things, just like modern chimps and apes. (Modern primates also throw stones, it’s not the evolution-killer on its own that the meme is making it out to be.)

    No, the REAL thing that soared us beyond all members of the animal kingdom is how we started abstracting information and sharing it. IE: language, writing, and the cognitive processes behind those skills that allow us to plan ahead. Not just planning ahead, but being able to set up actions far in advance, like planting seeds because we know a plant will come out of it. Migrating to where animal herds migrate to so we can stay close to the food, and just the day-to-day actions like preparing a fire in advance so you can see when it gets dark, bringing things with you to use later, having an idea how to ration food, being able to share your plans with others, communicating your movements to other hunters, and yes, all this made us exceptional hunters. When other primates were still mostly foraging for plants and bugs, our ancestors used this “thinking” thing to start getting massive doses of meat. Amino acids, proteins, high-density fuel, food for growing brains.

    Our story of how we got here is without question the most fantastic story ever. You are the product of over 4 billion years of uninterrupted successes. A family tree going back a thousands of millions of years without break, surviving apocalypses that have turned our entire globe to ice, to fire, to water and other unimaginable catastrophes.

    So now you made it, your billions of generations of ancestors secured your survival against all odds, whatcha gonna do with it?

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    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, every existent species is the result of millions of generations. We all fill our niches, until we don’t. So even the humble tortoise is just as remarkable as us in that way, but I bet they will outlast us given how long they’ve existed.

      The thing that always stuck with me about evolution is that we are related to everything. The pup I’m sitting next to is pretty close to me in terms of evolutionary time, the potatoes I ate are a lot more distant, but it is still my cousin, etc. It really makes me feel like I’m part of the world knowing that.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Language is OP in this MMORPG

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was with most of this until the selective breeding part. Did prehistoric humans have a concept of this? Do we have evidence of that? If so, that sounds rather interesting. I’m just a bit skeptical is all.

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s definitely these two things plus our ability to digest meat as well as plant matter, plus our communication and social skills plus…

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tools and making tools. We fucking tricked stones into thinking

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    • jenny_ball@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yes. cooked meat in fire in particular

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  • TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was actually cooking. We learned to grind up meat instead of chewing it, small teeth was the first step.

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Uh no, evolution isn’t broken.

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  • Lemmeenym@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I read that as " wolves, dragons" and was very confused for a moment.

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Aren’t some wolves also persistent hunters?

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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• rsuri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol, sauce?

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      music video for Pearl Jam - do the evolution

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  • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I fucking loved this cover as a kid.

    Wooooooooooo

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      IT’S EVOLUTION BABY!!!

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• Hupf@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  beast titan throwing rock

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, animals. It’s temporary.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hope it doesn’t turn out that way.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I threw pinecones at birds 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.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is the reaction for most animals

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    • Echinoderm@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Including humans. I’m not going near the person launching pinecones at my head from their yard.

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• MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ok but why is he kinda hot?

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How do you think we got the Neanderthal DNA in the mix?

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    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      really? I thought Neanderthal and Homosapiens can’t breed together?

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Muscles.

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    THANK YOU

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is Incorrect because humans are not fungi

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nice horns you got there, I can make a throwable one that I can replace in seconds.

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I claim hax

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• pelletbucket@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  apparently there’s evidence that spitting cobras evolved specifically to deal with stick and rock-wielding primates

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not gonna lie we kinda broke the meta game

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Have rock, will throw

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• downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  wait til you see what i can do with a flint and a sharp stick, these thumbs are excellent, if you have the means

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• kionite231@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  s/rock/fire

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Throw a fire

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am not sure where y’all evolved, but you skipped a few thousand years and a whole bunch of sharpened sticks.

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