Actually, the biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans have wisdom, but animals do not. Animals have only reached a level of consciousness, but have not reached the level of wisdom. But at present, we don’t know the wisdom of humans. How it came about. This is also the reason why the current artificial intelligence (AI) does not have wisdom.
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So what is wisdom?
To put it simply, the most obvious feature of human wisdom is the ability to draw inferences. This is something that animals do not possess. Apart from being smarter than other animals, are humans inferior to animals in other aspects?
For example, we can't run a cheetah in a short sprint, and a 100-meter sprint, Bolt takes 9 seconds 58, which is less than half of a cheetah; climbing is not as good as goats; swimming is not as good as fish; climbing trees is not as long as a primate Kind; smell and hearing are inferior to cats and dogs; let alone strength, just come here with tigers, lions, bears, etc., in terms of strength, it absolutely crushes humans.
Huh? I saw a cartoon when I was young. I don’t remember the eyes of eagles, ears of wolves, the speed of leopards, and the power of bears. Linguistic, but not as complicated as human beings.
In fact, from a certain perspective, although language can enable us to communicate better and develop faster, it is also language that causes contradictions and suspicions between people. You don’t know what I’m thinking, then I What I say is true or false only by myself, which creates mistrust between people.
In fact, so far, scientists have not studied how languages are formed, and there are so many languages in the world, how do they come from? Who on earth taught humans to speak? Is it extraterrestrial civilization ?
Although we can’t compare to animals in so many abilities, there is another ability that is superior to other animals. That is long-distance running.
In our impression, the most powerful mammal for long-distance running should be horses. There is an old Chinese saying: "The red rabbit in the Lvbu horse" means that the red rabbit travels thousands of miles every day and 800 at night. In fact, it travels thousands of miles every day. It’s just a legend. You can think about it. It starts at 8 in the morning and ends at 8 in the evening. It’s a day. You can run 500 kilometers for 12 hours without eating or drinking. The average speed is more than 40 kilometers per hour. In ancient times, there was no Sunglasses, you said that you run so fast , why don’t you do your eyes.
In fact, the unit of measurement of length in ancient times and ours is different. According to research, in Zhou Dynasty is equal to 1 Huali The current 298.65 meters, 1000 miles is now 298 kilometers, hey, it is more reasonable at a glance, in fact, our average horse runs 150-200 kilometers a day, which is the limit.
Then guess what If horses and people race for a long distance, who can win?
In fact, in 1980, Wales, England, the first man and horse marathon was held, with a total length of 35 kilometers. To this day, the race has lasted more than forty In the past few years, humans have only won twice, and most of them have been won by horses.
Although horses have won most of them, the 35-kilometer race is far from the limit of human beings. In the Olympic marathon, the full length There are 42.195 kilometers. There is also the kind of super abnormal, the longest marathon in the world. It ran 4980 kilometers in 51 days, an average of 97 kilometers per day. The fastest runner in history took 41 days to complete the race. , An average of 106 kilometers per day. Isn’t it scary?
In fact, there is an allusion to the marathon
. In 490 BC, the Persians invaded Athens at that time. In the northeast of the city of Athens, one called Landing at Marathon Bay,The Athenian army resisted bravely and defeated the Persians in the Marathon Plain. Known as the Greek-Persian War in history, the Athenians sent a soldier who was good at long-distance running, "Phaedipides", nicknamed "Greek-Persian War". "Scud", ran back to the central square of Athens from the marathon to report the news. After reaching the central square of Athens, he only said "We have won", and then fell to the ground and died. To commemorate him, a marathon was added to the first Athens Olympic Games. The total length is 42.195 kilometers, which is said to be at the time. "Phidipidus" ran such a distance from the marathon to the central square of Athens.
In fact, from an evolutionary perspective, humans are not only suitable for long-distance running, but long-distance running has even accelerated the evolution of humans.
According to archaeological findings, humans began to use bows and arrows 50,000 years ago; 300,000 years ago, humans began to use stone pointed spears, which are made of stone and can be skimmed; but in the earlier 250 Thousands of years ago, a large amount of meat appeared in human recipes. As mentioned earlier, the stone-pointed spear only appeared 300,000 years ago. Before such spears appeared, the weapons that early humans could use were sharpened wooden sticks, and wooden sticks were melee weapons. It can only be used in close combat, so where did the meat come from in the early human recipes? Then what do they rely on to hunt and kill animals that are bigger, faster, and stronger than humans?
This is about the "durable running hypothesis"
According to the "durable running hypothesis", early humans mainly used endurance hunting to obtain meat, so what is endurance hunting? When an animal is in danger, it will escape at the fastest speed, but this fast running will not last for long. It needs to stop to rest and dissipate heat. The hunter will gradually catch up and keep on running. Repeat, repeat, repeat, until the prey can't move.
In fact, to put it simply,It is to chase the prey until exhausted, and then hunt it up close. This hunting method is still used by some primitive tribes now. For example, the Bushes of Kalahari desert ; and the native Mexicans, Tarahumara , still use this routine.
The reason why human beings are strong in long-distance running, the characteristics and structure of the body are also very important.
The first is the heat dissipation problem. The human body is hairless and can sweat a lot. We can excrete up to 3 liters of sweat in one hour. After running for 3 hours, we can eliminate 10% of our body weight. Sweat can take away heat. Animals are different. Animals not only have dense body hair, but also have underdeveloped sweat glands. During running, their body temperature rises and the heat dissipation is not good, so they can’t run for a long time. They also have developed neck ligaments. Can stabilize and balance the head.
There are also relatively short toes. Tested by relevant scientists, if the length of the toes is increased by 20%, the mechanical workload of running will double; and our tendons are stronger than the apes, which are like springs. Similarly, when running, you can save energy while saving energy. There are also our body proportions, shock-absorbing arches, narrow chest and pelvis, and developed buttocks muscles, all of which are adaptable features for long-distance running.
There is one more important point. Running can make people feel happy. When we run aerobic for about half an hour, the release of " endorphin" in the brain will increase, which is also called "endogenous opium", which can make people feel euphoric. This euphoria has a certain effect on eliminating negative emotions.
So, if we occasionally or often feel bad, we can try to run, which may bring you unexpected results.
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