Ethonal rockets were the first thing to go in to space, and ethonal has been made for thousands of years, it's basically drinking alchohol. A really stupid society could have gotten in to space if it evolved on a low gravity planet 🤔

We may not be very strong, nor may we be able to take a lot of damage over a sustained period of time, that’s a given,
But we are still heavily resilient.
We have an immensely rapid healing rate. That’s why we scar over, and why our scars on large wounds are so ugly. The body is so efficient at immediate repair that it leaves behind these disgusting remains. We don’t have to worry about hair or camouflage or anything like that to survive.

We can survive highly traumatic injury. Where many animals in the kingdom would die from shock immediately after something like losing an arm, we can mitigate it both in terms of mental fortitude and bodily reactivity.

We are built for endurance. Even today, the endurance of humans is almost unparalleled in the animal kingdom. We can keep on a jog or march longer than many animals can survive a run

Well I'd argue we are more like the eldar, intelligence glass cannons, or the imperial guard, willing to rush head first in to battle evne if we die, like in WWI or even WWII

We are brave and tenacious, despite the inherent fragility we all possess

its more that humans know how to deal with our wounds

Even a wolf knows to lick its wounds, my friend.

The sort of strong will, so I guess we are like the imperial guard. Humans heal slowly compared to other animals sadly. I guess we are just really tenacious and have a lot of willpower, and will blow ourselves up or run headfirst in to battle if need be

one way I compare our fragility is that cows can eat grass all day despite all the dirt and bacteria and end up fine, and wolves and cats and whatnot can eat raw meat. Yet human digestive systems such so much we can't do eitheir and were basically shit until we had fire

our inherent fragility forced us to be smart about things, and this lead to us developing technology to compensate. For example, rats can produce vitamin C, but humans can't, so we had to eat fruit and develop color vision, and becoming more visual forced us to be more intelligent (our eyes are like 20% of our brain). Visual identification requires a lot of higher thought instead of instinctive thought like smelling, and so this forced us to get smarter

We then got more empathetic as we were a social species, and this allowed us to share information, write it down and pass it to generaitons

Humans can eat raw meat, it’s just better for our stomachs not to.
Cattle can eat grass even if it’s dirty because they have several stomachs, promoting a heavily enriched gut fauna Chewing the cud also stops cattle from getting any cuts in their digestive tract, which keeps bacteria from the gut out of the bloodstream

Exactly, humans lack this. We also can't eat raw meat. So we have shitty digestive systems

We can. Many peoples do.

Eating and drinking is one of the most likely ways to kill us, with disease

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-jtYT5COvU

If the meat is clean, you can eat it raw.

We were forced to sterilize everything and that force us to become smart

Well, raw meat is likely to have parasites and bacteria in it that isn't cooked. One in every so many kills will have stuff that will instantly make us sick and possibly die

we can eat raw meat well enough. cooked meat is just so much better, that after we found fire we started to specialize into being able to digest that well

Aaah, but there you have to ask the question.
Did we sterilize it because we couldn’t eat it, or can we not eat it because we sterilized it?

um, just because a wolf can lick its wounds doesnt mean it helps

It's like saying you can stab your leg because you might not get onfected

in fact, overlicking by them and dogs often causes infections

That is an interesting question, although I believe humans though had a hard time digesting it early on; wolves have a lot of antibacterial stuff in their wounds where as if humans do this we are likely to infect it which is more likely to kill us xD

Our high infant mortality rate is unique

I posit the latter. The transmission of healthy bacterial enzymes from mother to infant is well documented in breast feeding. Early humans, all the way to the Greeks and the Romans, would readily consume raw meat with only marginal difficulty.

Humans for example don't come out of the womb being able to do much and need our parents for several years, but many animals come out walking within hours

We suck at a lot of stuff in order to walk upright, throw, sweat, and think

the high mortality rate among mothers and babies is also a tremendous weakness

well, until we developed countermeasures

Well people used to die from dystentry like all the time and lived to 35-45 back then, cooking food really changed our ability to survive

Human babies must be taken care of where as like deers come out walking straight out of the womb. The human fragility lead to us having to take very good care of our young, and not being able to have as many, thus having to invest a lot more in to each kid and raise them more, thus leading to future generations being smarter and smarter

so-so

I would posture humans are very tenacious and fatalistic despite this, like we see in WWI, willing to charge in to combat anyways

it makes transfering our knowledge down the line far easier

On the wolf note, that’s also not necessarily true. Just about every terrestrial mammal has coagulative enzymes present in the saliva, and the production of this enzyme is increased when the body realizes it’s bleeding. This is also why one of the first instincts humans posses when they, say, cut their thumb, is to put it in their mouth and suck on it.

If your mouth is clean, you won’t infect your wound.

our empathy and compassion was extremely important, as we had to raise our kids and have tight knight communities to survive, and it force us to take really good care of each other and pass on information down the line

yeah, no

every vet tells you that if your pet is overlicking its wounds, to make it stop

wolves have a particular antibacterial stuff in their saliva vs. humans

Human mouths are filthy tho