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Yeah, but those evolved on high-gravity planets are smarter (and maybe stronger) since they too must calculate thrown-object trajectories but have to do so fast
by awwaiid 3y ago
Yeah, but those evolved on high-gravity planets are smarter (and maybe stronger) since they too must calculate thrown-object trajectories but have to do so faster. Our brains use just enough energy, but no more, to keep us alive. Being smarter than we are would be a waste .... but if we HAD to think faster, we would evolve to match.
So maybe they'd figure it out.
- eru 3y agoHumans are (nearly?) the only animals that got really into throwing stuff, especially throwing stuff with heft and precision. (As a corollary: you can train seals to balance balls, and apes might through excrement; but only (some) humans can juggle.) If throwing things well had been much harder, perhaps no animal would have ever bothered?