Why did human evolution not keep prehensile feet? Wouldn't it have been more of a benefit?

Why did human evolution not keep prehensile feet? Wouldn't it have been more of a benefit?

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Because it's harder to run on flat land with an opposable thumb.

Cant run as fast/far with those. Why aren't you >>>asking /sci/

>Wouldn't it have been more of a benefit?
Evolution decided it wasn't.

Fpbp

evolution is a farce
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For climbing maybe. But modern humans don't climb. They fashion weapons to use after they run down beasts to the point of exhaustion and kill them at their leisure. Humans are almost unparalleled in long distance endurance running.

God didnt design us that way

Because evolution is a subversion tactic by the international financiers for social engineering.

>Missing non-seed bearing to seed bearing link
>Missing animal to human link

It was literally made during a time before we had the technology to analyze DNA, and kept up only because of culturally formed mindsets through. Even Darwin admitted those were the two biggest weaknesses, and there are still none to be found nearly hundreds of years later save for a few created (human side) attempts by scientists whose funding was about to run out. So, we have something with the absence of proof being pushed for a cultural mindset, and a very practical motive for keep it running.

because you can't wear shoes that way

yuck. imagine having foot fetish with that

It didn't need it. Just like it doesn't really need the pinky toe anymore, hence why it's curling up and getting ready to die.

Not as attractive as current feet.

god did it

So how do new species replace the ones that die out?

pretty much this

stalking prey for miles to the point the prey is exhausted was the preferred method of hunter gatherers (hunters would encircle the beast and 'herd' it along back and forth)

climbing wasn't beneficial to us anymore, though why women didn't develop this type of foot is beyond me, seeing as they would be better for gathering in theory

This. Monkeys climb trees. Humans hunt.

You're what's know as an idiot. Evolution is very much a thing. Modern humans aside, it's incredibly easy to study evolution in bacteria and other microorganisms that breed and die in the hundreds of millions every year. Mammals simply live too long for it to be really noticeable.

stop propagating this nonsense... we're not great long distance runners because we're good at endurance... we're great long distance runners because we sweat.

Wouldn't it also be more of a benefit if the gestation period wasn't 9 months?

No mutation that can be observed in nature is positive. All are either harmful or benign, but not beneficial. Such thinking is not science, but merely cultural conjecture.

sometimes i think about this hard enough and you can kinda imagine feeling the thumb there

It's a combination of both. Humans have one of the highest endurances and pain tolerance in the animal kingdom.