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[-] Arctic_monkey@leminal.space 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

It wouldn't. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn't think it through much.

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