/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8606389
No, we would just kill each other, most likely.

>>8606389
we did eat the neanderthals, we'll eat the fuck out of anything. We got goose liver, Turducken, Haggis, fucking goat cheese, oysters, all sorts of shit.

werent there a handful of extinct species similar to, but not quite like, humans? as in pic related

dont really know why theyre extinct but im glad they are desu

There were plenty of others, we just killed them all or they mixed with us.

And because of our success, we prevent other species from doing the same, since smart species require a slow maturation in a stable environment, and our success mandates that we make all environments other than our own unstable.

>>8606389
in only five words:

>because we were the first.

>>8606389
>Why were we the only intelligent, bipedal species to develop?

We weren't. Neanderthals and homo erectus came before modern man and they were bipedal and intelligent.

>>8606433
But that's wrong.

>>8606389
>tfw no lusty argonian maid gf

>>8606389

An easy way to extrapolate is to look at some uncontacted tribes.

Those are actually people with interesting cultures and languages that almost seem "alien" to use.

Every time a group has been "integrated", we use laws to destroy their tribes and steal their property.

Often the women are captured as sex slaves because these tribes do not have as much police protection (since they live in the middle of no where).

Those who do choose to integrate often end up on drugs or in prostitution because they have no marketable skills.

We can extrapolate:

1. If there was another species more advanced than us, we would turn into their bitch.
2. If there was another species less advanced than us, we would make them our bitch.

>>8606389
intelligence is a rare mutation because of how useless it is and how hard it is to develop. A few very specific circumstances need to exist for an intelligent species to evolve. Including the ability to manipulate tools, high calorie diets, young that take a ridiculous amount of time to reach adulthood, etc. In the wild, a species that takes a long ass time to grow it's young to adulthood is asking for extinction, all it takes is one disease to ravage your tribe and you've wasted years of hunting and gathering. About 70,000 years ago, humans nearly went extinct, with the total population of people being about 2000.

>>8606546
yeah this is the natural order of things, the weak should fear the strong.

>>8606478
Also Denicovans, hottentots or Khoikhoi of south Africa. Neanderthals were European and Homo Erectus was found in Africa. There is the Javan man and many other species of humans found all over the world, many of which we know next to nothing about.

>>8606426
Most of them died out or succumbed to interbreeding with Homo Sapiens until their blood line was basically bred out. A genetic test in Tibetan descended people will often show other hominoid species that bred with Homo sapiens.

>>8606433
>>8606492
More accurately
>because we were the last

>>8606389
We can still hope for ayy lmaos

>>8606571
>yeah this is the natural order of things, the weak should fear the strong.
You should post in the vaccines thread.

>>8606426
>subspecies
pfffffffffff

>>8606389
But there are others. Mongoloids, like you, who fetishize cartoon characters meant for children's tales.

>>8606389
We werent the first, but we are the fittest of our lineage and the only one still extant. Since we now fill and totally dominate our niche there is no room for another species to radiate into it

>>8607208
vaccine threads are a meme

>>8606426
But those all came from the monkey lineage. But really, why haven't other completely different species been developed into intelligent bipeds? What kind of environment or other factors does it take for an animal, say a tiger, to evolve even slightly in the direction of a bipedal, tool using language tiger?

>>8606389
>>8608878
>>8606495
Did you really come to /sci/ to ask why your furry fantasies aren't coming true?

>>8606389
Eh
We are not really
But other species had different redeeming qualities, whereas we probably were dependent on something different because we were slow/weak etc. (it may have to do with the use of tools), so we had to develop the already existent intelligence to greater points

So we are special somewhat because we were weak probably

>>8608933
yes

I'm studying Geology so I've had some classes on paleontology.

The crazy amount of luck that went into producing humans is so rare you should be asking 'how the fuck did we even get humans?' A very specific set of circumstances occurred to get where we are now.

This should be obvious because in 4.6 billion years age of the Earth it happened exactly once.

>>8609150
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The crazy amount of luck that went into producing humans is so rare you should be asking 'how the fuck did we even get humans?' A very specific set of circumstances occurred to get where we are now.

Can you elaborate? What keywords should I search with to learn more about this?

I'd be the first to take the knot.

>>8606389
Were your man-dogs real, do you think there would be any less or any more racism? In general, nothing would be different if man-beasts existed: we'd still be an ignorantly incompetent species that can't feed children or even stop blowing them up. Besides, there are lots of two-legged, dirty, diseased, uncivilized beasts in the world.

>>8606417
>fucking goat cheese
But that's delicious as hell, anon.

>>8606495
>>8608878
Yiff in hell

>>8608878
You need a primate skeleton to get a humanoid form because non primates will become furry theropod dinosaurs in the future. Once something has a primate like skeleton it is now possible for a human shape to arise over time in evolution.

What about reptiles? Some of them are already bipedal. How many more millions of years will it take until they become intelligent?

>>8611023
evolution doesn't work that way
games do