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@Karl@literature.cafe on literature.cafe Open parent

Why aren't we evolved to eat grass?

It’s everywhere. Why not just eat it instead of searching for less readily available veggies and meat?

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@deegeese@sopuli.xyz on sopuli.xyz Open parent

Why haven’t cows evolved sentience? Grazing lifestyle doesn’t favor big expensive brains.

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Lumidaub in !asklemmy

@Lumidaub@feddit.org · 12d

Sentience is the ability to perceive your surroundings using your senses. What cows (probably) haven’t achieved is sapience, roughly the ability to think about more than your immediate sensual impressions, in the abstract. Modern humans have decided they are extra sapient, hence “homo sapiens sapiens” whereas Neanderthals are “homo sapiens neanderthalensis”.

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