Are Humans OP?
Why Worldbuilding Stack Exchange recommends it
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange answerers point people to it as a source for human physiology and evolution, such as sweating, endurance running, and the advantages of small pathogens, when working out how humans compare to other species.
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What it is
An 8-minute TierZoo video that treats humans as if they were a character in a competitive game, ranking human biological traits like endurance, sweating, and intelligence against other animals. It is presented in the channel's tongue-in-cheek tier-list style while explaining real evolutionary adaptations.
What people said
Cites Josef · 2018-06 · Worldbuilding Stack Exchange · on “Could humans survive with dinosaurs?”
There is this youtuber called tierzoo discribing differnet animals and races in depth and in comparison ranked in tiers, maybe you can inform yourself about that. [LINK] [LINK] [this video] [LINK]
Cites Timo Huovinen · 2020-08 · Worldbuilding Stack Exchange · on “Earth is invaded by miniature aliens - can they win?”
If they are faster than light, they should be able to shift the position of earth to be off orbit, wait for all humans to die and then shift it back. Heat up the planet and watch all the humans get flooded, then cool it and conquer what is left. Nano bots that create each other from eating carbon as was also previously mentioned. Historically viruses and bacteria are the humans arch nemesis. Their small size is actually beneficial to fighting humans. As explained here: [this video] Spend a lot of time shifting a large meteor to target earth. Create a stable (maybe small) black hole on earth. Radioactive contamination. Make a hole in the earths magnetic layer. Leak air into space. Since they are s
Cites vsz · 2023-04 · Worldbuilding Stack Exchange · on “How can a person kill a giant ape without using a weapon?”
Persistence hunting? It's a common thought that humans can only defeat any animal because we are smarter and can build weapons, and we are otherwise much weaker in every aspect than even animals of comparable size. However, there is one big exception, something where humans are physically better than any animal: endurance. A fit human can jog basically all day long, as we can cool ourselves while on the run [this video] . Animals can't, they have to stop to cool down, else they overheat and collapse from exhaustion. If a big enough crowd of humans starts herding an isolated lone animal, so big a crowd that the animal is afraid of attacking them, then no matter how fast that animal is, if the huma
Critical Pinion Minion · 2018-06 · Worldbuilding Stack Exchange · on “Would my lizardmen be good at throwing things?”
Okay, so I was creating a cold-blooded humanoid species (for a story, I'm no scientist) and ran into a problem with some of my logic. Because of their obvious issues with overheating, these lizardmen couldn't be pursuit predators like humans proper can with their miraculous ability to sweat. So I adapted them for ambush tactics instead. After all, because they don't waste nearly as much energy with homeostatic systems, they could wait around until prey showed up instead of having to hunt it down like a common mammal. With this in mind, I decided to utilize the broad bodies I gave them for sunning themselves to make them really good at throwing weapons. After all, javelins and throwing clubs