they did not “stop evolving”, thats not how it works
not how evolution works.
I would say, from all Apes on earth, we are the only ones who are working 8 hours for living.
They didn’t stop evolving. Neither did humans.
Some humans did
They didn’t. They keep evolving different way than human. Ape evolution is slow. We can’t see it due to our preception of time. They just seem to exist as is and the gene pool is quite narrow.
nah man it’s cause they peaked
The human/gorilla common ancestor walked upright on two feet. Humans kept it, gorillas evolved towards foot/knuckle walking.
some of us humans (such as me) are heading back toward knuckle walking
Video or it didn’t happen
no need. I have a recumbent tricycle and used to snowboard. i’m literally a knuckle dragger
I remember reading somewhere that the indigenous people of a SE Asian country believed that orangutans could speak, but chose not to because they would be forced to work if humans found out
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This is different but sort of the same energy.
I asked my dad one time “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we didn’t need to sleep?”
And he go wide eyed with a horrified expression on his face and said “Hell no, can you imagine how much they’d make you work??”
I feel like even if that was untrue in the past, it’s definitely not untrue today
it’s a good myth. i like that the tooth fairy is a raccoon. i’m not sure why. i just like the image of it. got the right size hands.
Stone age bonobo
WE are apes too, so they did evolve and have to go to work.
so like divergent evolution. there was a common ancestor. we evolved to go to work. they were smart and evolved to be communal banana eating tree peoples. fucking geniuses.
i know it’s a joke. but every animal alive is just as evolved as us. that includes apes (which we also are), zebras, fish and earthworms.
ACKSHUALLY that’s not how evolution works.
It’s not a linear process with the goal of developing intelligence.
It’s a linear process with the goal of developing crabs.THANK you
all hail crab god
There is a game about that https://store.steampowered.com/app/3526710/
:3
Forget about returning to monke. March sideways unto crab. 🦀
But… monke!
The smartest thing I ever heard about evolution: „It’s rolling dice and keeping the sixes.“ There is neither a goal, nor a peak. Evolution is a load of completely random mutations. The ones that help a species to survive in their specific environment are „kept“.
Also oftentimes, stuff that was kept because it makes thing possible, turns out to be useful for completly different thing Fingers helping apes climb, but they also allowed the use of tools.
It’s worth pointing out that evolution sometimes will just randomly evolve traits that don’t really help a creature survive more, it just doesn’t make it worse at surviving.
i want to point out sickle cell anemia.
if you have it, life is hard. pre-modern-medicine you died young. however if you are just a carrier (you have to carry two recessive genes to have the disease, but if you only have one you’re a carrier. i think it’s recessive, i learned this 20 years ago) you have remarkable resistance to malaria.
life is funny that way.
I mean, DNA does have regulatory and feedback mechanisms. Some of which we don’t even understand yet.
I find “it’s always just patches” from software engineering more fitting.
Apes are constantly changing, including humans. How fit the survivors are now that Humanity has fucked everything up is questionable.
I’m gonna stop working and hope that’s a survival trait.
Narrator: It wasn’t
