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Opposable thumbs

adurot:

ppdk:

What If your species evolved to the point they knew that tool use would be like, beneficial to their continued development as a species. But they still manipulated everything with their mouths. The evolutionary process just missed out the necessity for grasping.
Would the first invention quite literally be a tool based around building a better method of using your limbs to manipulate tools so you didn’t have to struggle on using your face as a primitive claw?….

Like, boom, goats have human level intellect. Would the first goat to invent the hoof mounted … I dunno, hand be a thing…

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evolution gave them horns which can grip things.

  1. crade-elcin reblogged this from ppdk and added:
    if the goats existed in a world WITH homo sapiens, probably. Otherwise, the goats would probably design their tools to...
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  3. silver-tongues-blog reblogged this from adurot and added:
    evolution gave them horns which can grip things.
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  5. gearholder said: Hell, why are you stopping at goats? Dolphins manipulate things with their genitals :V
  6. gearholder said: Different-abled alien species do this all the time in sci-fi stuff, so yes.
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