• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you’re not tall enough, you might not be able to see if there’s a gazelle or lion behind a large rock, thus you will neither be able to feed your family nor save it from being eaten.

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      24 hours ago

      We were all mostly, like, 5 and a half feet tall up until a couple of hundred years ago. Height wasn’t a primary biological advantage for us. We weren’t prairie dogs.