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Foward-facing eyes with depth perception or big brains & a high IQ were not necessary to launch primates into the trees shortly after the Dinosaur Apocalypse, nor to start eating fruits, but a arboreal habitat & fruit-rich diets may have been prequisites for building a larger brain, by providing high-calorie meals inaccessible to most other mammals.
— Aug 20, 2026 05:32AM
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The Paleocene survivors were smaller than most of the Cretaceous mammals. Their teeth indicate that they had generalist, omnivorous diets. Our eutherian ancestors were holding much better cards in Earth's casino. They could hide easily, eat many things, they lived over wide areas, they were numerous. No one feature secured victory, but together they won the pot. Dinosaurs had the dead man's hand.
— Aug 10, 2026 03:23AM