Why is the human body so mediocre?

lmoa retard.
Try living 15 minutes without your iPhone faggot

I've literally gonna two weeks+ with just fishing rods and canoes

Americans are pussies (also British and germans)

No species can be good at everything.
Growing fangs and claws and armor and long legs all take resources. All bodies, like all structures and machines, are compromises.

"Advantages" don't even have to be contained in a single body. How does a pack of dogs or wolves take down prey much larger than any dog or wolf? They have social organization. They cooperate.

We're not the fastest runners, but we have endurance. Even today, humans can follow an herbivore until it drops. Antelopes don't have to face that difficulty with other species. If a lion doesn't make a kill with the initial sprint, it stops and goes looking for another target. We can keep our minds on a goal and keep pursuing.

That was good enough to keep us alive until we invented spears and guns.

lol if you're so great, why do you feel the need to project so much?

>Being a sleeplet pleb
You know that that's what (((they))) want you to believe, right? If you sleep less than 8.5 hours you're probavly sacrificing IQ points.

go back to /pol/ stormfag

BECAUSE white people still exist

you're not white if you don't own a dog

I'm not white and fuck you too
seriously fuck you

fuck drumpf and fuck white people too

Haram.

>sleeping more than 6
See you in russia's winter boy.

That's a beautiful dog user. Chocolate labs are the best. Is it yours?

>you are able to perform practically any kind of task while also having the intelligence to create tools that help you in specific tasks above the level of a natural expert
>you have the best stamina in the whole animal kingdom
Perhaps it's boring if you think having 1 superpower and being useless otherwise is fun. I doubt many of us would think of that superpower as very not boring if everyone had it. Humans are not born excelling, but they are born with the capability to excell in anything.

also
>hard to kill
we are very easy to kill
>just not as well as an tardigrade
they don't thrive, they barely survive

yeah, he's a good doggo

running theory is total dogshit. if it wasn't we'd have monkeys and primates running around like crazy today, but we don't. No primates hunt by running.
Even if we did, then what would we do if we caught up to some animal? No claws and no fangs to do shit. The animal would get some bite marks after a nap, then it'd be up and running again.
If they used a bow or a spear to finish a kill then they'd just sneak and behave like normal hunters, absolutely no need to run until exhaustion, which by the way wouldn't work anyway because you wouldn't be able to find the animal after 100 meters.
NatGeo's explaination to this: the runner imagined himself as the animal and could think the same way as his pray so he naturally took the right path.
total shit theory as I said.

There were more hominids than just sapien you retard

fuck you, fuck that image
what is it referring to? shovel dog?
but seriously, hang yourself for posting that image

all dogs must be shoveled.

Primates are too hairy. What makes humans so good at running is that we don't have a lot of hair and sweating cools our body really efficiently. Because of this we can outrun almost every big mammal and just need to follow their traces.

If you only have primitive weapons you have to sneak up really close to make sure you hurt the animal fatally. This is not that easy, so simply following the traces until the animal can't run away anymore was probably the first hunting technique.

you're not making any sense, do you mean lucy was a long distance running predator?
thanks for giving me a laugh.

it's a non existing hunting technique.
all you running fags got is an old fantasy nat-geo program with negroes running around in the bush.

If you have only primitive weapons it's basically the only way you can hunt as a human.

you loose up to 3-4 liters of water running per hour, so after 20h endurance running you'd be down a cool 60kg of water, but I suppose that would help when the night sets in, anhydrobiosis should help surviving the cold nights without fur.

You don't run for 20 hours. Tracking them for 15-20km is enough for most animals. That takes about 3-4 hours.

maybe we are not good at all of that but we can do everything, we have the intelligence to be able to make tools to make our lives easier... not because you are a fat person means that we are all the same

Except running theory is legit. Hunting by exhaustion is a basic technique practice by species other than humans.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Also when you pursue an animal to exhaustion state you can literally use any kind of object to render the prey useless since the idea is they're too tired to fight/defend itself properly. It was probably extremely common event to just pelt/beat an animal with a flurry of stones and/or stab it with broken tree branches. Also hunting in packs makes it extremely easy to overwhelm prey when you have no tools. Because most animals aren't equipped to handle a 10 on 1 fight scenario.

because it sure is easy to sneak up on an animal and hit it with a spear in a way that will ensure it won't get away

Because we have to devote about 80% of our energy and caloric intake to our fucking huge ass brains. That's the tradeoff. We can't devote as much energy to our muscles like most larger, stronger land mammals but our megafuck brain power and tool use makes up for that.

Also the human body can do a lot of cool shit that other animals can't. Even without modern medicine, we can recover from a lot of wounds that another animal, like say, a horse, couldn't. Fine dexterous motor control and free limbs makes for a great range of tool use. And we can outlast nearly every other animal on foot stamina-wise thanks to bipedal adaptations like a curved spine and locking knees for standing.

Oh yeah and don't forget HUGE ASS FUCKING MASSIVE BRAINS. Absolutely insane abstract problem-solving capability and advanced linguistic capacity means humongous collective knowledge pool to pull from.

Just thank fuck that you're exponentially smarter than every other species on Earth.

Humans are the greatest long distance runners on the planet.

id rather be a jack of all trades then just a master at one

Human beans are the strongest endurance land animal, and used to hunt by running grazer animals down until they collapsed first from exhaustion.

We also have opposable thumbs, strong grips, and some of the most accurate projectile throwing of any species

>Because we have to devote about 80% of our energy and caloric intake to our fucking huge ass brains.
This is absolutely false. It's actually 20%

And the stupidest fucking thread of all time award goes to..

For our size, we've a fairly low need of intake for burning calories per muscle mass.

We can outrun many prey animals over great distance to hunt them through exhaustion.

Our eyes can distinguish a source of light (note: not observe visible light) more distinctly at a greater vision than most.

Vocalization ability, allowing heightened communication and as a defense mechanism.

Bone flexibility is heightened, allowing for greater adaptive bone density and maneuverability.

Very adaptive bodies allow for easy temperature management and variance of cardiovascular and musculature variation.

We're actually really fucking radical, my man. It may not seem like it, but imagine how much of a fucking machine old humans would have been - running all fucking day and hunting all fucking day would lead to some really beefy dudes that were probably hardy as fuck. We've grown more capable mentally, but humans of old on average could probably beat the pulp out of humans on average today. We obviously did something right if we're one of the dominant species here on Earth.

> Unparalleled intelligence.
> Opposable thumbs.
> The most accurate and powerful throwing arm in the animal kingdom.

Humans win again, tardigrade internet defence force get out.

>that's why we were hunted to extinction and didn't become an apex predator
We've never done this to another. Without technology, our existence is pretty fragile. We'd constantly get reduced to a few thousand, and never exceed ~30k. We wouldn't last long if we didn't develop better technology and regulatory social systems. Hardly good survivors or competitors with proper animals.

That's not accurate at all.
Our ancestors were responsible of extinction of several large mammals, there are a lot of studies about that.
Technology isn't only computers, even spears and fire are technology, and no other animal has that.
No animal could compete with us even in the past.

Primates are shit tier
we should have evolved from felines

>le tardigrades are hard to kill meme
Can you brainlets stop parroting this whenever animals are brought up. They die by the millions to fucking snails. SNAILS.

>buh buh without technologee
This is the shittiest argument ever. Technology is human made, it didn't just fall out of the sky one day. You may as well say that ants suck because without the anthill the entire colony would die.

>without technology humans will die
>without claws, lions will die
>without herds, elephants will die
>without wings, pigeons will die
No shit. Our ability to develop techniques and tools is a characteristic of our species. I don't get why your average normalfag always thinks as if technology is some sort of alien thing that is separate, not only from our species, but from the world in its entirety. Idiots who spout bullshit about "going back to nature" and "getting rid of technology" don't seem to understand that technology is our nature.

Bruh you kidding me, your ancestors would fight lions in the Colosseum and win. Your ancestors would fight off bears, tigers, elephants, alligators, dragons, ogres, and demons. All we had at that time were point sticks of wood. Leonidas made a scratch on a god king with 3000 soldiers versus millions. Ghengis khan, Alexander the great, the prophet Muhammad, and many others United the world through conquest. Humans are so strong we ran out of competition in nature so we started fighting each other. Think about all the people who have come before us and built great structures. Each block in the pyramid weighs 2.3 metric tons and they were brought there by men. The hagia sofia, the hanging gardens, Angkor Wat, how many examples do you need that humans are incredibly powerful in both body and spirit.

The Empire State building was built in one year, if those blue collar workers you look down upon as a posh sci man are so weak. Then you should be able to beat em right? I see you calling the human race weak as a deflection of your own perceived weakness. But you are not weak, you have heart and soul.

Shut up with that humans are weak bull shit, learn some physics/math and help me or compete with me to get to the stars.

Don't have that kinda time mate, way too much work to do. Tryna bring the whole team with me to some serious cash.

Hurting a dog like that is Haram

If a human merely uses his superior hands with opposing thumbs and whatnot, and picks up a sturdy 2 meter stick from the ground he will be able to easily defeat any animal of the same weight.

This, intelligence is the trait we used to gain an edge over other species and take control of the planet. The ability to make and utilise tools is as much part of us as claws, fangs and muscles are part of a lion.
Also we're REALLY well adjusted to running long distance through savannas. Everything from our two leg posture (which means less sunshine absorbing area), to the ability to sweat profusely and thus give away heat really well to our really good stamina let us run long distance through the savanna either chasing after an animal or to a dead animal we'd notice vultures circling around

>flat earthers
>0.9... != 1
>rockets dont work because newton's third law
>climate change is just a myth
>hey guys, why did we develop those features and not other ones?
Gee, you tell me

Probably true. I'm not a biologist.

humans are jack of all trades kind of animal. we adapted to live very convenient lives

on the other hand, a human of 10,000 years earlier would be much stronger, and much healthier than the average human today

i completely disagree.
human aren't strong, but they are very smart.
there are about a milion ways you could die in an a very elegant fashion (parasites,amebas,bacteria,viruses,poison,contamination,injury,shock,dehydration etc) and that's not counting instant death scenarios of something like blunt force trauma. most animals can sustain life much better than we do

t. OP
At least those threads are funny. The question you're posing is the stupidest thing I have ever read on this board.

It's the only animal that was able to live from arctic lands to the equator.
And that well before any complex technology.

Because it's adaptable to every environment

>why do we have to be so boring?
If you think human experience is boring you are doing something wrong. Have you ever tried having sensual sex with a person you love while looking into their eyes and seeing their love for you in them after you both vaporized 0,5g of dried cannabis flowers?

this is Veeky Forums user

>generally only sleeps for 9 hours compared to something like a koala, who can easily sleep double that

We don't need as much time to be fully rested, how is this a bad thing?

ITT

Everyone in this thread is a brainlet

Okay, I didn't even read the thread, but it's a safe assumption, here's the thing:
humans are not good "distance runners", that's a meme, only the elite runners are good but they would be absolutely terrible barefoot in the wild where there is uneven and faulty terrain.
Physically, humans are unmatched in activities that involve high precision like throwing objects, we are unrivaled in the animal kingdom when it comes to motor coordination. Dancing, playing instruments, drawing, most sports and every art proves it. How did this came about, most likely when it became socially advantageous for us to have better coordination over more strength, when our primary tactics for defense against predators and for hunting was at first simply throwing rocks at them, eventually spears.

dude weed lmao

This, I'd rather not have to sleep at all
I get irritated when I have to sleep

>he doesnt MIN MAX

wew

>those threads are funny
Not for more than the first month on Veeky Forums, they aren't

Hello redddit! YES!

Humans are distinct because of their bog braynes and ability to work in massive societies.

Some day bug broyned superhumans will live in cybernetic structures and dominate the pathetic fleshcucks

>Why is the human body so mediocre?
Because we compensate for it with a truly fascinating mind. It's actually as simple as brain over brawn.

The fact that you can ask this question on a message board is a testament to our ingenuity.

If your real question is why have we done so well as a species vs say Neanderthal?
The answer is we did not evolve alone, the man and dog/wolf entered into an early partnership and thrived together.
We are smart and have opposable thumbs, the dog/wolf has good tracking abilities and works well in a pack.

I get it, you like dogs.
Now consider how many populations on earth prospered without dogs.

Tardigrades are a meme. Snails eat them as food

You're not just a regular moron.
You're the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived.

You guys are all answering him wrong. Sure, we're only okay at these things, but the fact that we can do them ALL to an appreciable extent is what puts us on top.

We gave nearly every other evolutionary niche other then running far.
Currently though we are in our worse state of muscle building as well there simply is no need for it on mass as it was.
Keep in mind, well our mind, the greatest weapon we have is to out think anything, or try to.

Delet this

How is it different from regular? Please do tell

We are really good at long distance running.
We are really good at throwing things.
We have the most powerful brain of the animal kingdom.
Pure physical performance isn't our thing, because it's not part of our suvival strategy.

You got any facts that disprove his statement?

Fact no. 1

Fact no. 2.
Now please do tell me how did dogs help us time travel 20-30 thousand years back and overcome neanderthals.
All it took was 30 seconds of fucking googling to drool a little less while broadcasting you retard field, but no, you had to join in on the stupidity.

You're an idiot. Literally no animal wants to fuck with a fully grown great ape. We're the most batshit crazy group of intelligent mammals. We live in large groups that can efficiently plan and coordinate attacks. This makes us apes very dangerous, and a very risky choice of prey. A healthy adult male ape is very formidable and resilient, and will never be challenged by a hungry predator.

>We
>us apes

Speak for yourself, gaytheist.

Do you judge an ants ability to fly too?