Eli5: how are humans, who are two legged, able to out endure creatures that are four legged?
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All great explanations here, but one thing that hasn’t been mentioned much is our leg shape. The Achilles tendon alone makes humans ridiculously efficient, because it allows us to regain a lot of the energy we use when stepping. It acts as a spring, storing energy on the downward stride, and releasing it when we push off.
Then there is the human butt. We have a huge ass which powers our long legs.
Larger groups can take on anything as long as it’s not advanced tech.
From utilizing fire and the larger groups it supported we started developing language amongst a ton of other things, but this was arguably the most important evolved characteristic that sets us apart from other organisms.
With language we band even larger groups that can cooperate better. Larger battles happen too, but the victor takes more spoils. From language we get a linguistic system where people start stitching fictions based off their experience to make sense of their reality…
Then bingo bango bongo, ya have even MORE people cooperating together under a cause they perceive bigger than themselves. Sumerian creation myths and society, Egyptian creation myths and society, canaan and others, Greek, Roman, and Abrahamic creation “stories” and societies. Technology advances exponentially but our nature moves as slow as evolution.
It’s funny to think that once we develop a different nature, better from avaricious human nature, that we may not be considered humans any longer
Larger groups can take on anything as long as it’s not advanced tech.
From utilizing fire and the larger groups it supported we started developing language amongst a ton of other things, but this was arguably the most important evolved characteristic that sets us apart from other organisms.
With language we band even larger groups that can cooperate better. Larger battles happen too, but the victor takes more spoils. From language we get a linguistic system where people start stitching fictions based off their experience to make sense of their reality…
Then bingo bango bongo, ya have even MORE people cooperating together under a cause they perceive bigger than themselves. Sumerian creation myths and society, Egyptian creation myths and society, canaan and others, Greek, Roman, and Abrahamic creation “stories” and societies. Technology advances exponentially but our nature moves as slow as evolution.
It’s funny to think that once we develop a different nature, better from avaricious human nature, that we may not be considered humans any longer
Our bipedal motion is VERY energy efficient. A human can walk all day. Meanwhile, most four-legged animals can only move faster than us in short sprints. So all we have to do is just outlast them until they’re too tired to try to run anymore.
Our bipedal motion is VERY energy efficient. A human can walk all day. Meanwhile, most four-legged animals can only move faster than us in short sprints. So all we have to do is just outlast them until they’re too tired to try to run anymore.
It’s the brain-to-leg ratio! The more legs you have, the more difficult to coordinate. That’s why we can easily outrun centipedes – who get their legs tangled within the first few meters of the track. Follow me for more useful insights. 😉
It’s the brain-to-leg ratio! The more legs you have, the more difficult to coordinate. That’s why we can easily outrun centipedes – who get their legs tangled within the first few meters of the track. Follow me for more useful insights. 😉
The way humans walk is absurdly efficient too. We sort lean forwards and catch ourselves each step which doesn’t require much energy at all.
The way humans walk is absurdly efficient too. We sort lean forwards and catch ourselves each step which doesn’t require much energy at all.
We can sweat and cool off so we don’t overheat.
Imagine a race between all sorts of cars. Remove the oil from all of them except one. That car will last longer than every other car.
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