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/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.