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~inquiry

> If we think about a primitive
> caveman, he doesn't have sharp claws,
> or teeth, or an excellent eyesight
> nor can he run very fast or withstand
> extreme cold and heat. The way they
> overcame these inconveniences was
> by making tools that would help
> them survive.

I could be missing some key science/information, but you've got me wondering how evolution led to so sorry-assed a beast appearing so late in the game.

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~tetris wrote (thread):

Same way that people with sickle-cell anaemia still exist: being a carrier of the ailment protected you from other ailments (malaria in this case), and so it was never selected out of the gene pool by Nature