Apes smart

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ACKSHUALLY that’s not how evolution works.
  It’s not a linear process with the goal of developing intelligence.
  It’s a linear process with the goal of developing crabs.

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  • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forget about returning to monke. March forward unto crab. 🦀

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    • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But… monke! Image

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a game about that store.steampowered.com/app/3526710/

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      :3

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    THANK you

    all hail crab god

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• tuberman@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i know it’s a joke. but every animal alive is just as evolved as us. that includes apes (which we also are), zebras, fish and earthworms.

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• Rudee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember reading somewhere that the indigenous people of a SE Asian country believed that orangutans could speak, but chose not to because they would be forced to work if humans found out

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  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is different but sort of the same energy.

    I asked my dad one time “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we didn’t need to sleep?”

    And he go wide eyed with a horrified expression on his face and said “Hell no, can you imagine how much they’d make you work??”

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like even if that was untrue in the past, it’s definitely not untrue today

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s a good myth

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OooOok

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• mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They didn’t. They keep evolving different way than human. Ape evolution is slow. We can’t see it due to our preception of time. They just seem to exist as is and the gene pool is quite narrow.

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  • BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nah man it’s cause they peaked

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apes are constantly changing, including humans. How fit the survivors are now that Humanity has fucked everything up is questionable.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m gonna stop working and hope that’s a survival trait.

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Narrator: It wasn’t

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The human/gorilla common ancestor walked upright on two feet. Humans kept it, gorillas evolved towards foot/knuckle walking.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    some of us humans (such as me) are heading back toward knuckle walking

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    • MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Video or it didn’t happen

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They didn’t stop evolving. Neither did humans.

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  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some humans did

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• getFrog@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not how evolution works.

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But you do

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• Hegar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  [Morbo voice] Evolution does not work that way!

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• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they did not “stop evolving”, thats not how it works

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• 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The smartest thing I ever heard about evolution: „It’s rolling dice and keeping the sixes.“ There is neither a goal, nor a peak. Evolution is a load of completely random mutations. The ones that help a species to survive in their specific environment are „kept“.

  Also oftentimes, stuff that was kept because it makes thing possible, turns out to be useful for completly different thing Fingers helping apes climb, but they also allowed the use of tools.

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  • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s worth pointing out that evolution sometimes will just randomly evolve traits that don’t really help a creature survive more, it just doesn’t make it worse at surviving.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i want to point out sickle cell anemia.

      if you have it, life is hard. pre-modern-medicine you died young. however if you are just a carrier (you have to carry two recessive genes to have the disease, but if you only have one you’re a carrier) you have remarkable resistance to malaria.

      life is funny that way.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, DNA does have regulatory and feedback mechanisms. Some of which we don’t even understand yet.

    I find “it’s always just patches” from software engineering more fitting.

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• jared@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Without referencing H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine or species of the Homo genus aside from Sapiens, describe what you think it would look like after humans split into two new clades.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not pale humans with brain mass exposed.

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• lengau@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They didn’t stop evolving. They just evolved better.

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Return to monkey!

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• nuko147@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would say, from all Apes on earth, we are the only ones who are working 8 hours for living.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The real question is what was the point in evolving if they were just going to evolve into morons like whoever made this.

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ape together make union!

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stone age bonobo

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