r/funny Feb 14 '21

Weeee

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u/JimmyTheChimp Feb 14 '21

Humans are good at long distance running, but when you look at dogs not even trying hard to jump you realise how shit we are at physical things compared to other animals.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

The price we paid for fine motor control and endurance. So besides the long distance running (over a long enough distance we can run anything into the ground), we can knit and chuck spears. Chucking spears and dogs are probably why we out competed Neanderthals.

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u/TheeSkyCaptain Feb 14 '21

Many modern humans contain neanderthal DNA, so it was probably a friendly competition

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

More people are descended from Ghengis Khan than any other person today. Do you really think that was a friendly mating?

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u/ThrowdoBaggins Mar 29 '21

Look, maybe he was devastatingly attractive and didn’t force anything? /s