Thread: You are the Worst Man in Histoy

Originally Posted by Adam

Agreed, kind of!

Modern man is so much more. So they're strong and can run and jump high - whooopty doooo! I cannot remember the last time I needed to jump higher than my actual height, or run at 45kph. I have the skills, strength and brain power to do exactly what I need to do in this lifetime - not in theirs.

Actually, you could use your modern intelligence to solve primitive problems. Thus, you could rise to the status of a god.

Originally Posted by Black_Eagle

Actually, you could use your modern intelligence to solve primitive problems. Thus, you could rise to the status of a god.

That sounds like a great plan, except I destroyed my time machine after my last disaster...

I always knew about the decrement of human's ability. Go back a few years in the past where ppl worked on farms without mechanized tool...and the difference between us is probably already noticeable. Just imagine this but 10 000 years in the past, I believe in all this.

...so where did all the genes go exactly?

Originally Posted by Xei

...so where did all the genes go exactly?

My best guess would be that we lost our physical ability to strategic warfare
over time, as the stronger man filled the infantry role and more or less likely
died before having children. The intelligent ones were kept for their value as
strategists and leaders of the community. If chimpanzees are able to
strategize on a basic level, somewhere down the line we must have seen the
value in filling roles based on how qualified one was to fill it (the most
primitive example being the argument over who gets to be leader of the
tribe). Even in labour positions the expected lifespan is shorter.

We (human beings) often tend to prefer either the physical or the intellectual
over the other. It should follow that those who tended to the physical
aspect of human developement due to genetic predisposition were at higher
risk of death-before-mating. Strategizing as a social creature, beyond only
warfare, was a key element to our survival in the tribe all on its own.