Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "The Insane Biology of: Humans" video.

  1.  @theonlineanimal6009  You have no idea what you're talking about. The average strength was perhaps slightly higher, because more people worked physical jobs. But you pass people far stronger than the average 500 years ago every day: all construction workers, bakers, gym goers, etc.
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  2.  @Flesh_Wizard  Not the power, the speed. The pistol shrimp still wouldn't be able to hurt you.
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  3. That's far from settled. It may well be that that's an exception and most humans hunted (if they did) via stealth and projective weapons. Endurance has benefits outside of hunting.
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  4.  @theonlineanimal6009  >the average man used to be built like a construction worker Lol, nope. Perhaps you should read some older novels or get into anthropology or sth, depending on when exactly you think the average guy was as strong as a construction worker today. >Big. People have never been bigger than now. And the trend is towards greater height.
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  5.  @themissakura599  That's not adaptation, that's just a pain signal ending. It takes weeks if not months for noticable changes in musculature and aerobic capacity.
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  6.  @pestisthebestspaghettikeys6944  There's saws that cut through the casts for broken limbs, but not skin. Being squishy makes you more resilient, not less. Fishermen and scientists are clubbed by those shrimps and they're fine.
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  7.  @HaizeyWings  Again, you're confusing speed with impact. If you guys boxed I think the confusion wouldn't be so big. The club accelerates very fast, but it's so light that it doesn't harm you.
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  8. You're unfathomably unlucky to be among the first couple of life forms to emerge rather than being among the septillions of the galactic civilization.
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  9. Birds practice singing and building nests, humans seem to learn the guitar for the same reason.
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  10. Citation needed.
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  11.  @prometheus9096  Who messed up what?
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  12.  @Foreignmonk34  There were humans vs horse long distance races and the horses usually won.
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  13.  @Piemasta9000  Wolves, caribu, horses, etc have better endurance. But yeah, humans are up there. Also why would you chase a cheetah of all things?
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  14.  @o-wolf  Hominids were never fast. They were always slow as fuck and part of that is unavoidable standing upright on two legs.
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  15. That changes absolutely nothing, because your sperm doesn't keep track of your exercise.
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  16.  @Milliardo5  The ability to drink milk wasn't the result of someone's ancestors training it. It's the result of those, who got less sick from milk, having more children.
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  17. That's because water is soft.
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  18.  @uteriel282  Total horseshit. I bet my ass the average college student is stronger than the average hunter gatherer. 500 years ago the average person was also stronger than the average hunter gatherer, precisely because smiths and farmers could build muscle far above the baseline of their ancestors. And I don't see a reason why other animals shouldn't be able to do that. At least in rats scientists demonstrated muscle gain through exercise.
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  19.  @theonlineanimal6009  >obviously the further back you look. The stronger we were All of the hunter-gatherers we found where somewhere between skinny and skinny-fat. We've never found a tribe of swole people. If you work out at all, you could probably straight up bully 90% of your human ancestors. If you do some physically intensive job like stacking consumer items all day, you could probably bully 99% of your ancestors.
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  20.  @theonlineanimal6009  >back then. You had to be strong to survive. Absolute horseshit. Again: We have NEVER found a tribe of swole hunter gatherers. If they can survive just fine without being strong, our ancestors surely could as well. >It didn't require knowledge. 100% wrong. Our hunter gatherer ancestors needed much more knowledge for survival than you. They used their knowledge to find food, to find animals, to find water, to make speartips. They had standardized ways of manufacturing blifaces in several steps that were in no way obvious. >advanced human history in college I'd love to confront your professor with your dumbass takes.
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  21.  @devwdevw3014  >Humans are weak compared to most animals. You mean of a similar size? No, we aren't. We're pretty strong for an animal our size. We are weak compared to PREDATORS of approximately our size, which is pretty normal.
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  22. I would have like a knife or at least a spike.
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  23. The idea is that you get lost or abducted and r@ped. Not that you get killed by a bunny.
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  24. Most monkeys swim instinctively. And humans do not. Until recently swimming was a rather obscure pastime even in the West and most people in the middle east and africa still can't swim.
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