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@FearGod :
I understand that humans are unique in many ways, to other animals, but much of your examples mostly show is that humans are relying heavily on inventing and developing technologies to do much of our works for us.
While this is smart move, it also limited and slowed our own biological evolution, because we don’t develop biological adaptation to cope with natural changes, but we are relying on technological adaptations and technological evolution to do our works.
While I can admire human technological advances and achievements, they are not natural biological advances.
For instance, we have the ingenuity to design, develop and manufacture planes that allow us to fly in the air. Not only that we have created planes large enough to carry over hundred passengers to their destinations.
But these are technological advancements, not biological advancements, because we are still incapable of flying ourselves through natural development.
Birds developed naturally with wings strong enough to propel themselves and keep themselves in the air, because they are naturally “selected” and therefore have natural capabilities to fly.
Bats are winged mammals, and they developed natural capabilities to fly, so they were naturally selected to fly.
But of course, having wings don’t mean the capability for flight, such as the ostriches, emus, chickens, and penguins.
And yet, penguins are naturally selected to be able to swim more effectively and efficiently than other birds.
While swans and ducks are capable of flying and swimming, but these birds only float on the water surface, and pedalled to get where they are going on water at a very sluggish pace, but they are not as natural swimmers like the penguins.
Mammals that have developed natural capabilities to swim better than us humans, such as whales, dolphins, seals, etc, are more naturally selected than humans, when it comes to water travel.
And while humans can swim, we weren’t naturally developed to stay in water in indefinite period of time.
But we have developed ships that keep us travelling on water, at greater distance and at greater speeed than if we were swimming. But that again, have more to with us developing the technology to travel on water, we have not naturally developed capabilities.
