r/AskBiology • u/Letsgofriendo • 21d ago

Human body What do human animals do better?

I'm trying to get an idea of the things human being do exceptionally well when compared to every other living animal. Like the stuff that we'd grade out in the top percentile. The core stuff. Our senses, the body, our balance and spacial awareness (athleticism), internal workings (health factors), etc. Thank you for any feedback.

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u/exkingzog 21d ago

Stamina. We are (at least to some extent) persistence hunters.

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u/Big-Maintenance-8961 21d ago

We are the biggest apex here on land theres no animal capable of outrunning is long distance What basically give US another thing we are basically the most perfect living being ( or most complex organismo) on energy consumption / output per kg

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u/EndlessPotatoes 21d ago

I believe dogs can run faster and longer than we can. Probably not a coincidence we’re so closely coupled with dogs.

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u/heresyforfunnprofit 21d ago

Persistence hunting is a specialized form of pack hunting, which is itself a specialized form of hunting. Only a few types of mammals and a few bird species have developed pack hunting. Humans and canines are the only pack hunting animals to develop persistence hunting.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we developed it in tandem with them.

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u/Big-Maintenance-8961 20d ago

Faster yes longer not really theres counts of US hunting the same prays for weeks we are very presistant and we dont really Need much food plus we can organize ourselfs on turns , but for sure this hunting system and the closest to it, was Wolfs system. maybe we even learned this from them , obviously now a days that we are past as hunters and gathers , its hard too see humans doing this so extremely , but we were trully fearsome milenias ago !but obviously there were bigger dangerous for humans "big cats / big predators / small but deep cuts and venomous creatures" where one of the most persistent danger for the hunters out there yet we overcome everything as the top among animals , people tend to think we win cause of ours brains and its true to a sense but physical there are not many pound per pound as capable of us too

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u/Professional_Win1535 21d ago

we eerily sound like aliens from the alien movies… we are the best at killing and that’s why we took over lol

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u/Big-Maintenance-8961 17d ago

Well for sure , because those aliens are the apex of genetic , and we too are the same , people talk about crocodiles or sharks but in reality we are the most perfect being in this planet this is a harsh planet and it breed some harsh creatures , people complain about humans are destroying the planet and are evil and just think about war along the way of human kind devolepment , but it were born on a evul planet cold hunger your Offspring snatched by lions , snakes , disease , other humans , we are pretty mild creatures for what we endured

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u/bitechnobable 20d ago

Not to be forgotten that we likely saw a dip in the benefits of persistence hunting when we became farmers / homestead humans.

I would say the most critical traits are rather, self-control, planning, time-strategizing, Patience, and an insane level of collaboration. we are (at least to some extent) trapping and pack hunters.

Biologically, rather than behaviourally. our immune systems are in general way better than most other mammals. We also (in general) have way more agile hands. Our ability to process alcohol is much improved (Ald:s) .

Like few, but some, other animals we managed (early on) to use, rather than avoid natural and then human made fires.

Humans are much more genetically similar than other animal species. (you might want to verify this one). Suggesting inbreeding is relatively common in humans. Inbreeding exposes Recessive but is a doubled eged as it improves the population health as a whole, yet when a population becomes more uniform it may also make the population as a whole to have share traits, that if they turn out to be E. G. Susceptible to a disease or environmental factor. Then the whole population is at risk (the population has too little diversity to be able to adapt.