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minus-squareArctic_monkey@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoThe reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoProbably thought that you need to be smart to hide well, which is not at all how it works for most animals but IS how it works for humans.
minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoIt wouldn’t. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn’t think it through much.
The reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.
Probably thought that you need to be smart to hide well, which is not at all how it works for most animals but IS how it works for humans.
It wouldn’t. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn’t think it through much.