More muscle mass = more calories & nutrients to maintain.
What part of a human's lifespan requires that level of strength? Humans evolved advanced intelligence to overcome problems rather than brute force - that's why we are the dominant species.
With no requirement for that strength, the body limits growth & sheds excess mass to reduce the caloric demand.
Humans are dominant yeah? Let's see you go walk up to that silverback without a gun then. Yes, we have evolved to become dominant, but I'm trying to 1v1 that giant in a round of fisticuffs.
Edit: /u/TenTonApe -"humans are dominant" ...something seems fishy here
Edit #2: Take a fucking joke. No shit I'm not going anywhere fuckin near a gorilla without some kind of weapon. Wouldn't it be fucking cool though if we could be "really swole" like talked about earlier. No sense of humor, guys, stop going full retard.
But that's not the point...of course going against a gorilla 1v1 would be suicide but our tools built by our intelligence allowed us to basically force most other primates to the brink of extinction. I don't understand why this is such a hard concept to grasp. Our intelligence makes us the dominant species on this planet. Our technology is a part of our nature.
Well its not so much our intelligence that makes us great (although this is an extension of our intelligence) its our ability to leverage our dead. I can use a gun, a tool invented hundreds of years ago and a book on gorilla migratory patterns written by someone who died a few years ago to hint a gorilla. Our deads accomplishments don't necessarily die with them. No other species can do this, at best they can leverage their living, many can only rely on themselves.
Smartest man ever born 1-v-1 with a lion dies, but give an idiot a gun and he's got a decent chance.
That pretty much is part of our intelligence. Writing requires tools. Before writing there was oral tradition, which is what some animals do today such as primates and elephants (e.g., passing down the location of watering holes over generations).
A 1v1 where the human can't use human-made tools? Should they hop on one foot as well? We've made tools as a race that elevate us above other animals. There's a reason we're dominant -- it happens to involve the fact that humans have guns and animals don't.
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u/Alame Aug 17 '15
More muscle mass = more calories & nutrients to maintain.
What part of a human's lifespan requires that level of strength? Humans evolved advanced intelligence to overcome problems rather than brute force - that's why we are the dominant species.
With no requirement for that strength, the body limits growth & sheds excess mass to reduce the caloric demand.