Birds seen stuck in position for hours in Tsuen Wan prompts call to police, but source says investigation affected by lack of CCTV at site.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    If we hadn’t evolved this way, we would have evolved another way

    Uhhhh…no…we wouldn’t have. That’s the entire point.

    In order for humans to develop things like speech, tool-making, complex sociological relationships, everything that literally makes us human, required a big brain. Big brains require lots of power in terms of caloric density. Which is why becoming meat-eaters was a threshold in our evolution. No meat…no homo sapiens, end of story.

    Whatever we would be, (If we would evolve at all) wouldn’t be considered a homo sapien. It would likely be just another branch of an early hominim species that died out shortly after moving down from the trees.

    You are correct that evolution is not a “ladder”. You’re trying to educate someone who literally majored in archaeology with a minor in history. The past is quite literally my thing. There were many many early hominim species that began evolving. Why we’re here and they aren’t is because we had the brain power to figure out how to control our environment. And that brain power came from the caloric density or meat.

    So no…we wouldn’t have evolved “another way”.