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minus-squareArctic_monkey@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 hour 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-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 minutes 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.
It wouldn’t. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn’t think it through much.