re: Why do people on this board act like humans are the weakest creatures on earth?

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I am not the retard saying we would have become extinct without the use of tools and weapons

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No, no you are not.

Smithsonian Institution

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How They Survived:
Prehistoric Homo sapiens not only made and used stone tools, they also specialized them and made a variety of smaller, more complex, refined and specialized tools including composite stone tools, fishhooks and harpoons, bows and arrows, spear throwers and sewing needles.

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Modern humans evolved a unique combination of physical and behavioral characteristics, many of which other early human species also possessed, though not to the same degree. The complex brains of modern humans enabled them to interact with each other and with their surroundings in new and different ways. As the environment became more unpredictable, bigger brains helped our ancestors survive. They made specialized tools, and use tools to make other tools, as described above; they ate a variety of animal and plant foods; they had control over fire; they lived in shelters; they built broad social networks, sometimes including people they have never even met; they exchanged resources over wide areas; and they created art, music, personal adornment, rituals, and a complex symbolic world.

There are numerous sources you can use to educate yourself. I suggest you give it a shot because it's become sad.

What you posted had nothing to do with your argument

Use of tolls and weapons absolutely skyrocketed humans up the food chain to where we are now as a dominant species with no comparison

However, our pure physical traits were more than enough to keep off extinction.

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if DC gets his hands on a chinos head or neck that chimp is going to be dead 5 seconds later. Now whether or not he can get in that position can be debatable but what he could do after he got there really isn't dude. I WILL SAY AGAIN, HE ISNT FIGHTING BY RULES EITHER!

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I'm not really sure why you keep posting the napoleon dynamite gif

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However, our pure physical traits were more than enough to keep off extinction.

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I guess I should just take your word over the scientists' then.

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However, our pure physical traits were more than enough to keep off extinction.

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Our physical advantage was we could run for long periods of time that other predators and prey couldn’t. Combine that with stone and wooden tools made us extremely lethal. The only animals capable of outrunning a human in peak physical condition in the long term is a horse and a wolf/dog (which made them both great hunting partners). Seriously, every year they do a marathon of men vs horses and the men beat the horses occasionally. A marathon was a daily occurrence for prehistoric man.

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Do you know the difference between a chimp and a gorilla?

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I do.... which is why i never fricking said anything about a man beating a fricking gorilla!!

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CBandits82

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why do you keep saying the chimp won't fight fair as the reason he beats a trained fighter? You realize dc could murder those people he fights in the octagon they just choose not to right? If he gets his hands around the chimp hes snapping its neck

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we have some of the greatest endurance of any animal on the planet, alongside wolves and I believe hyenas? But no for sure about hyenas. I know there are still tribes in Africa that will have death races with antelopes where they just jog after the animal keeping a steady pace always pushing it and eventually the antelope dies. I believe they do it with kudu but not 100% sure. We aren't that physically weam

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We're also the only species that walks upright which exposes one of the most vulnerable parts of our body, the stomach. We don't have natural weaponry or defenses, it's all based on crafting.

Like I said, we are one of the most physically fragile species on the planet. This is of course talking about not having any man-made instruments to help.

ETA: Humans can't even survive the weather without the use of man-made aids.