Humans are the S-tier most successful creature to ever walk this planet. It’s not even close. We named ourselves Homo sapiens in Latin, mean “man the wise.”
In the Game of life, experience has shown that the group of animals that wield sharp sticks and even sharper brains are literally the Greatest Of All Time species to walk this Earth.
Man evolved from other primates, and for a long time, there were other humanoids walking the Earth, like the Neanderthals, Denisovans, H. Erectus (haha), and more.
In the game of evolution… humans DOMINATE. Ez S-tier.
- humans evolutionary niche: creativity, culture, community
- Walk upright
- Weird evolutionary niche: creative, cultural, communal
- Getting drunk is essential to humanity
- Fire, our first technology, enabled our brains to get bigger and our social groups to increase (Dunbar number)
- Tool usage develops, leading to civilization and the Old Ways – Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age.
- Warfare: sticks with rocks are good as spears and arrows, warfare is pretty simple for a long time
- Hunting & Gathering: similar situation here, invention of baskets and pots
- Farming developes to brew alcohol
- Tamed wolves