Timeline for Human vs apes: What advantages do humans have over apes?
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| Nov 18, 2017 at 19:53 | vote | accept | Bryan McClure | ||
| Nov 18, 2017 at 19:53 | vote | accept | Bryan McClure | ||
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| Nov 1, 2016 at 19:05 | comment | added | The Nate | A much wider range of motion at the shoulder is one advantage. That video demonstrated it if you're paying attention. Our tools often don't do much with it, but many do. A machete can be used to hack down or from side to side by a human. Flanking other primates is much easier. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 4:01 | answer | added | rideoutcolin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | sampathsris | Obligatory monkey given a rifle video. | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 5:26 | comment | added | user64742 | Just a mild bit of clarification here. Are the apes aware that the weapons are weapons? Like, I could easily seeing a rifle gun misinterpreted as a cane to an ape, even if they are intelligent. Are they at least aware of what the devices do? Have they seen them used by humans? Sure, a tank is good and all, but to someone who has never seen one before in their life isn't even going to know it shoots bombs. I could easily see a kid thinking it's a telescope! | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 20:47 | answer | added | PStag | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 17:53 | answer | added | Brian B | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 16:32 | history | edited | Bryan McClure | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 13:38 | comment | added | Zack | "There are a wide variety of apes that gorillas" still makes 0 sense. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 3:10 | comment | added | zeta | Some of the answers to the following question may be relevant: Would gorillas with human-level intelligence make effective soldiers? | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 22:04 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 22:01 | answer | added | mike510a | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 18:00 | answer | added | EvilSnack | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 16:29 | answer | added | evar | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 8:02 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | One issue with the idea of an ape with human-level intelligence is that our evolutionary history selected for big brains instead of big muscles. Humans burn energy some 30% faster than chimps, and 20% of that goes to keeping our brains ticking over. A human in hand-to-hand combat with a chimp will lose big time because the chimp has muscles that we can't afford, due to the cost of our big brains. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 7:49 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | You might want to read "The Uplift War" by David Brin, which envisages a similar situation, although in that case it was guerrilla chimpanzees. | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 23:57 | answer | added | Anthony X | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 21:48 | answer | added | John Keates | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 20:45 | comment | added | kasperd | So a group of guerrilla gorillas? | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | Lorry Laurence mcLarry | If they stole human tanks, they may find them not quite comfortable to their physiology. They may have trouble fitting their stubby fingers through the trigger loop on guns, and that kind of thing. | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 17:14 | answer | added | Isaac Khor | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 10:31 | comment | added | David Conrad | Stack Exchange. | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 3:26 | comment | added | user6030 | Humans can use spoken languages; apes can't. Both can use sign languages, though. | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 2:49 | comment | added | user6760 | Forget it no internet no modern human, unless you can recruit Tarzan as negotiator... | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 0:13 | answer | added | NZKshatriya | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 22:21 | comment | added | mu is too short | BTW, humans are apes. Maybe you should be more specific as to what sorts of non-human apes you're dealing with. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 20:44 | answer | added | nevdull | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 19:43 | answer | added | Daerdemandt | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 19:13 | answer | added | Mike Nichols | timeline score: 23 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 18:55 | comment | added | Kys | “In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.” - Thucydides (the historian, not our own) | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 18:12 | history | edited | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:37 | comment | added | Bryan McClure | @Frostfyre thanks for the edit I fix the problem | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:36 | history | edited | Bryan McClure | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | Frostfyre | I made a few edits to your question, but one sentence I couldn't determine your intent: "There are a wild...that gorillas." I would recommend reviewing that sentence. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:03 | answer | added | AndreiROM | timeline score: 28 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:03 | history | edited | Frostfyre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:03 | answer | added | GrinningX | timeline score: 57 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 16:42 | answer | added | Draconis | timeline score: 46 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 16:26 | history | asked | Bryan McClure | CC BY-SA 3.0 |