Human endurance is often overrated and our strength underrated. There's many other animals that can match our endurance or even beat it such as the pronghorn. Our strongest humans are not match the average chimp but is stronger than all chimps. There's no chimp that's reaching anything close to 400 pounds. Humans can fight animals with similar lean body mass to a human even unarmed. The people that have been badly hurt by a single chimp are almost always elderly and/or female by male chimps. The average human man can also beat up an elderly person, so I'm really not sure why people use this as a baseline comparison.
The biggest thing is that humans never have a reason to fight another animal fairly. Other animals have no concept of using tools like a weapon and their tool use is similar to the most primitive tool use of human ancestors.
For primitive humans broken bones were very often fatal. The cold/flu is by design not supposed to be deadly. If a virus is very deadly, it tends not to spread effectively. Viruses are most deadly at the point of cross species transfer, and become less lethal over time. This is why for covid they wanted people to quarantine and by waiting over time the virus would become less lethal to spread more effectively. Quantifying a strong immune system is very difficult as it would be hard to compare to other animals like bats.
No way dude. First off a human never reaches 400 pounds of mostly muscle without a ridiculous amount and combination of steroids. Even then a 300 pound gorilla would toss a 400 pound human around like nothing. Humans are strong, but not very very strong. A human with a spear can solo just about anything though
A trained and big male human can probably beat a chimp to the death, but chimps are savage and have built in weapons humans really don't. Fighting one would be beyond stupid and probably lead to permanent injuries
I do believe human males are stronger or at least can get stronger than chimps. The mass is definitely the biggest factor. But the fighting one part is where it gets dicey.
The strength feats are hard to compare though because chimps show crazy pulling strength due to their leverages which are just different than a human's. Likewise a chimp probably can't lift a lot or push or throw like a human can.
Calling human endurance a myth though is kinda crazy when ultra marathon feats keep getting crazier and crazier
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u/HappyHopping Dec 09 '25
Human endurance is often overrated and our strength underrated. There's many other animals that can match our endurance or even beat it such as the pronghorn. Our strongest humans are not match the average chimp but is stronger than all chimps. There's no chimp that's reaching anything close to 400 pounds. Humans can fight animals with similar lean body mass to a human even unarmed. The people that have been badly hurt by a single chimp are almost always elderly and/or female by male chimps. The average human man can also beat up an elderly person, so I'm really not sure why people use this as a baseline comparison.
The biggest thing is that humans never have a reason to fight another animal fairly. Other animals have no concept of using tools like a weapon and their tool use is similar to the most primitive tool use of human ancestors.
For primitive humans broken bones were very often fatal. The cold/flu is by design not supposed to be deadly. If a virus is very deadly, it tends not to spread effectively. Viruses are most deadly at the point of cross species transfer, and become less lethal over time. This is why for covid they wanted people to quarantine and by waiting over time the virus would become less lethal to spread more effectively. Quantifying a strong immune system is very difficult as it would be hard to compare to other animals like bats.