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To What Extent are Humans Optimized?

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Humans aren’t the best of anything, compared to other animals, except brainpower.

Our ability to throw objects is unmatched in the animal kingdom, and it's not even close.

Major League Baseball is insanely human. The pitcher has to hurl a fist-sized ball into a static cuboid space from far away at a blazing speed, batter has to start moving the bat to intersect that cuboid and hit the ball before he can even see its path, basing his movement on his 20/20 vision’s and brain’s optimized estimation of the pitcher’s movements. Runners and fielders have to run upwards of 15 MPH at a moment’s notice and stop on a dime. And the umpires have to observe all of this and catch anything which breaks a single rule out of an entire book’s worth of rules.

I think humans excel at heat dissipation and efficiency of locomotion