Okay Iâve been thinking more about @rainbowratsstuffââs âhumans are extinctâ au and while I know that the whole âhumans are goddamn weirdâ concept has been played with in sci-fi settings, imaging the riverbankers&co â who have never seen a primate â trying to understand what humans are is the funniest thing
like, humans have binocular vision (both eyes facing forward) which is common mostly in predators, BUT human teeth are obviously not designed for attacking, and neither do we have claws so, alright, the riverbankers probably presume we didnât evolve to take down prey even with our canines and binocular vision
the other argument on the riverbank is that humans might have arboreal (tree climbing) origins because binocular vision is good for depth perception and if youâre jumping around maybe itâs not a bad thing to see how far you gotta leap BUT humans donât have tails for balance, nor feet to grip branches so, like, that doesnât track
(the lack of tails has led to some animals theorising that humans were underground creatures, BUT then again humans donât have claws for digging or any kind of whiskers for navigating through the dark)
in fact the only concrete theories they have is that humans were diurnal (active during the day) because humans have no whiskers and thereâs evidence humans had colour vision, which is usually a trade-off for decent low-light vision so thereâs no way humans had evolved to navigate through nightÂ
everything else about humanity is up for grabs
(donât even get riverbankers started on humanâs lack of fur. they have no idea)
