People are the most ill-equipped animals(for wilderness survival)

Discussion in 'Biology & Genetics' started by Oniw17, Feb 17, 2009.

  1. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I don't think small mammals, fish and carrion are hard to come by in the winter. And none of those have a high suger content. I'd probably have issues with rickets, not bad teeth

    yes, but you said rotten abcessed teeth within a year. I don't think so. Not even close.
     
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  3. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I think it will prove to be harder than you think.
    Do you live in bear country ?

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    I think it's close for many people.
     
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  5. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    To keep a population of humans going in the wild you only need people to survive to an average age of 20 or 30. I'm sure most people would lose some teeth, and some would die from gum infections etc, but I doubt it would be a major killer. People's teeth wouldn't ALL rot out of their mouth by the time they're 30. I doubt that even half of them would rot out by 30 for the average person.
     
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  7. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Well, I don't call that surviving if you compare that to current average age.
    Sure people as a species would survive in the wild, no doubt. The weak won't make it, leaving the stronger individuals to continue the species.
     
  8. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    I don't think anyone ever argued that people would live just as long as we do today. But I can pretty much guarantee you that 10k years ago people weren't living to an average age of 75.
     
  9. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I agree, but think about what would happen if all the hospitals, doctors offices were closed and any kind of medicine was banned this instant.
     
  10. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    We are quite literally the greatest equipped animals for wilderness survival in the existance of the earth.

    I mean what animal out there would be able to attack an abrams tank and win?

    Nature decided instead of creating more muscles, more teeth, more claws, to create a brain, and that decision made us the top of the food tree.

    There was a great quote that "when mother nature created the human mind, it wildly overshot it's mark."

    Seriously, equip me with a humvee with a .50 cal, machine gun and i dare you to find another different animal to threaten me.

    The fact is that it is our minds that got us as far as we have come.
     
  11. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    And the fact is that if those people were right, than why on earth have we not been eliminated by natural selection considering it is survival of the fittest.
     
  12. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Uh yea, that's not the point.
     
  13. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    There were no rules that humans could not use their resources for survival.
     
  14. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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  15. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    >.>, okay maybe a little bug repellant and an electric fence wouldn't hurt either.

    But my point wasnt the humvee, the point was that we weren't equipped to fight, we were equipped to think, and with invenetions we have climbed to the top of the food chain.
     
  16. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    I'm not entirely sure what your point is. In the wild animals die from all sorts of relatively trivial stuff that, say, a vet could easily cure or prevent. It's not like animals never have problems with disease/wound infection/etc.
     
  17. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Well, get a house too then. And throw in a hospital and some private doctors while you're at it.
    'In the wild' means that you don't get any goodies to start off with.
     
  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    That's true, but these animals are still being shaped by the forces of their habitat.
    We have been out of that habitat for ages.
     
  19. markl323 Registered Senior Member

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    you totally missed the point of those documentaries and the OP.
     
  20. eddie23 information sponge Registered Senior Member

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    We can make tools so we dont need fangs or claws.
    brain power is more dangerous than a claw ever will be.

    example... nuclear bomb
     
  21. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    that's the point im trying to make, thank you eddie.
     
  22. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Great example. You mean to ourselves, right ?

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    It would be funny to see the lot of you trying to make tools from scratch

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  23. eddie23 information sponge Registered Senior Member

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    no I mean to everything.

    and I could make tools if needed.
    I dont hunt,fish,or spend time out in the wilderness, but I could if I had to.
     

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