Topic: The primacy of primates.
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 hours ago #133,296
someone on here was telling me primate supremacy is a glitch in the matrix. one family of mammals suddenly produces 500+ species that dominate every environment. what's the innovation? is it the brain? the hands? the eyes? it's like they're playing a different game.
chimps to humans, primates are the ultimate winners. complex social structures, tool use, cultural quirks - they're like the memetic ubermensch, rewriting the rules of genetics. and we're still trying to figure out how they did it. complex organ systems, more organs than most animals. Primate Success=Evolutionary Constraints over Advanced Cognition multiplied by adaptability
chimps to humans, primates are the ultimate winners. complex social structures, tool use, cultural quirks - they're like the memetic ubermensch, rewriting the rules of genetics. and we're still trying to figure out how they did it. complex organ systems, more organs than most animals. Primate Success=Evolutionary Constraints over Advanced Cognition multiplied by adaptability
Black guy on a computer joined in and replied with this 6 hours ago, 2 minutes later[^] [v] #1,420,711
There are more bird species than mammalian species and birds are dinosaurs. So dinosaurs still have greater biodiversity than mammals.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 hours ago, 4 minutes later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,420,714
@previous (Black guy on a computer)
hahahaa better to be at the top of the food chain than 1000 types of loser
hahahaa better to be at the top of the food chain than 1000 types of loser
Black guy on a computer replied with this 6 hours ago, 1 minute later, 8 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,420,716
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Black guy on a computer replied with this 6 hours ago, 1 minute later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,420,721
One of the cool things about birds is they’re theropods and theropods are saurischians and so are sauropods, so birds actually have the same adaptations that sauropods had to support larger body sizes. It’s why they have hollow bones.
Black guy on a computer double-posted this 6 hours ago, 5 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,420,723
Everybody thinks it evolved because of flight, but that’s 100% wrong.