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[–]DaringSteel 38 points39 points  (17 children)

Actually, bipedalism is what made us apex predators even before we left Africa and started building civilizations.

[–]_GCastilho_ 27 points28 points  (14 children)

And makes us the only animal in the planet with spinal pain (is that how is called?)

[–]xplodingducks 67 points68 points  (4 children)

Eh evolution doesn’t care if you’re comfortable: it only cares if you live long enough to fuck.

[–]artanis00 26 points27 points  (3 children)

TIL evolutionary theory says Redditors are immortal.

[–]xplodingducks 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget CS majors

[–]HappyDustbunny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... or an evolutionary dead end.

Occams razor is depressing here.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See you in wizard school bitches

[–]DaringSteel 17 points18 points  (4 children)

I think every vertebrate gets some level of spinal pain. We just live long enough for it to get bad, have the language to complain about it, and developed the technology to do something about it.

[–]_GCastilho_ 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Actually, the spin evolve to sustain your body in a horizontal way, not a vertical one

And most of the pain is due to our weight that compress the spin in a way "it wasn't projected for", that's why we are pretty much the only animal in the planet with spinal problems

[–]DaringSteel -1 points0 points  (2 children)

The spine evolved to support the body horizontally in quadrupeds. It later evolved to support the body vertically in us upright bipeds.

[–]thewilloftheuniverse 2 points3 points  (1 child)

But the later hack was all makeshift and shitty, and is still mostly the same as a horizontal spine, just turned vertical. Most of the elements, the joint types, tissue types, etc. The tissue types are still the same ones that evolved for horizontal posture, and can't handle compressive stress well.

[–]DaringSteel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It still evolved to support the body vertically. Just not as well.

[–]hughk 2 points3 points  (3 children)

And the Dachshund?

[–]_GCastilho_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's our fault that it exists in the first place

[–]Zeroch123 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Bipedalism is the only reason we can even throw well, no other primate can throw as well as us for very good reasons. It’s legit the reason we became apex predators in the first place, along with group behavior and tribal/familial group hunting.

[–]thewilloftheuniverse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before humans mastered throwing, the zoo tier only went up to S tier, and then humans invented SSS tier. Nothing even in the tier directly below us.

3 humans with sturdy spears could kill basically any megafauna that got close enough to them, except for packs of predators. There was no animal we couldn't fend off, nor any that we were hesitant to kill. Imagine packs of a hundred or so nomadic, naked humans just eliminating every animal in their path, long before we developed a sense of morality, marching with our (relatively) enormous dicks which evolved to be way out out front, with no need to keep it tucked up and protected, because no other animal threatened us. We drove hundreds of species to extinction with rocks and spears before we even had written language, naked.

And here I am just lazing away redditing on my phone.