Hunters

Not everything that evolves has to be useful; it just has to not be harmful. That said, abstract thought is useful to hunters because it improves communication and strategy. Intelligence is probably the only adaptation is beneficial to almost any organism at any time, because its ...

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... good, they don't want their prey to smell them coming. Cats clean themselves, dogs roll in dirt and deer poop to disguise their smell, human hunters generally avoid perfume. Prehistorically, human males were more likely to hunt than females. Is that why women are more attracted to the smell ...

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... good, they don't want their prey to smell them coming. Cats clean themselves, dogs roll in dirt and deer poop to disguise their smell, human hunters generally avoid perfume. Prehistorically, human males were more likely to hunt than females. Is that why women are more attracted to the smell ...

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... quoted above about deer I'm making the point that over millions of years deer haven't evolved the capacity to look up for danger, which is why bow hunters climb into tree stands every fall. Surely there must be a mutation inching in that direction and that would have conferred some adaptive advantage ...

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... network niche. The deer can’t evolve beyond its niche unless that benefits the network. You can see this playing out this fall when camouflaged hunters climb trees to slay deer walking underneath that can’t evolve the survival mechanism to look up for danger, even though for millions of years ...

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