Neil deGrasse Tyson
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walking with your knuckles, dragging the ground, you couldn't see over the horizon, you couldn't see over the tall grass, or you couldn't see over, and then predators.
But didn't it give you the ability to be able to hear, to be able to smell?
Because some animals that can't see beyond, they can hear extremely well.
They can have an incredible sense of smell.
The smell wasn't in our genes.
If it was, then we'd be able to smell the lion, you know, the way a dog can, okay?
Dogs never walked on all fours.
So they have a way better capacity to smell than we do.
Put them in the grass.
They're gonna smell your ass.
So, yeah, so our, plus we have relatively good vision.
All right, we have binocular vision, so our depth.
But not like other animals.
We're at the bottom of the totem pole.
Like, well, no, bats don't see with their eyes very well.
They can echolocate.