Posted: Jun 26, 2016 2:59 pm
Why is it Jayjay seems to treat this need for weapon proficiency to be an urgent developmental task? Did leopards and their ilk just rock up in Australopithecus land one day and start attacking them to the point of extinction within a few weeks if they didn't sort their shit out quickly? No they didn't. Evolution don't happen like that. Changes in species physical attributes takes ages to happen and likewise their behaviour often doesn't change that quickly either.
Australopithecus' teeth didn't change dramatically overnight and they didn't become pathetically defenceless prey overnight either.
There's always this ridiculous rush to the extremes in his arguments and assumptions. No big toes= can't climb trees. No big teeth=defenceless. Can't outrun a cheetah=definitely going to die if anything chases you. Can't fight off lions and hyenas=can't scavenge. No weapons=incapable of not being eaten or possibly using any number of the ways other prey animals avoid being the dish du jour.
If you can't see of the big, dangerous animals, your scavenging privilege is down the order of what's that common fucking phrase again? The "pecking order", that's it. Means you get to have your turn when you can get in to the food without becoming a side order. If you can't force others off the kill, then you wait or go hungry or go eat something else, since your diet isn't just restricted to meat and scavenging isnt the entirety of your food supply.
It always has to be that if Australopithecus wasn't the master of something, they just can't do it at all with Jayjay. Or at least not well enough to survive. It's total bollocks.
Australopithecus' teeth didn't change dramatically overnight and they didn't become pathetically defenceless prey overnight either.
There's always this ridiculous rush to the extremes in his arguments and assumptions. No big toes= can't climb trees. No big teeth=defenceless. Can't outrun a cheetah=definitely going to die if anything chases you. Can't fight off lions and hyenas=can't scavenge. No weapons=incapable of not being eaten or possibly using any number of the ways other prey animals avoid being the dish du jour.
If you can't see of the big, dangerous animals, your scavenging privilege is down the order of what's that common fucking phrase again? The "pecking order", that's it. Means you get to have your turn when you can get in to the food without becoming a side order. If you can't force others off the kill, then you wait or go hungry or go eat something else, since your diet isn't just restricted to meat and scavenging isnt the entirety of your food supply.
It always has to be that if Australopithecus wasn't the master of something, they just can't do it at all with Jayjay. Or at least not well enough to survive. It's total bollocks.