Evolution.

We could very well have lost an ability like that, but the problem is, with how evolution and Darwinism go, how did we lose such a useful trait? Wouldn't the people with that trait have survived or outlasted people without it? Or if everyone had it, what caused us to lose it in the first place?

Perhaps it was our progress down time? Development of shelters, weaponry, and etc. that made our ability psuedo-useless? Perhaps the invention of those "luxuries" is what made us lose this ability?

and maybe we lose our ability to ballon our penis when we came :shock: (like dogs)

nah...... just kidding

i agree with gambler, we may have lost some sixth sense, and i think that sixth sense is one of the logical "miss" in our evolution coz' of technology

We lost the sixth sense? Chances are we hardly had it to the degree some animals have it to begin with. If you're talking about predicting the weather and all that animals just tend to be more sensitive to environmental changes than us humans (change in humidity, air pressure etc).

As I was saying before, our evolution pathway didn't require the need to develop the 'sixth sense' as it probably didn't/wouldn't enhance our survival enough to be deemed an important factor to be passed down. Our brain probably developed in the way of logic and creativity. People who develop better technology has a much higher probability of survival (for them and their tribe) as opposed to people developing enhanced sixth sense.

Animals on the other hand never possessed enough brain power to actually take advantage of any increase in logic and creativity and benefited more from an enhanced instinct (aka sixth sense) to avoid danger (the wrath of nature and natural predators).

I find that there's too much evidence towards it and not enough against it to dismiss it as a posibilty. My hyper christian dad says"It's a bunch of crap", but on matters like this I like to keep an open mind.

Also... Screw wings or tails I would kill for those special fangs, cobras use to shoot venom, that would kick ass!

This wasn't really a thread to debate evolution, it was more working from the position that evolution is fact, just asking which traits you think it would be cool to have that we don't, I believe.

As a note, there is actually more substantial evidence to prove evolution than there is to prove gravity.

The ability to spit venom could be very useful.

hmm yes i miss the tails also prolly the muscles and the physic we used to have.Other than that we are far more advanced and greater now than before.(o also i wish we were still more intune with nature.)

If we were more "in tune" with nature, we'd probably have a hard time destroying it, and we need to destroy it to progress. I'm not saying that we need to cut down every tree in the Amazon, but occasionally, we do need to tear some shit up. We need to cut down trees to get paper and to make room for houses and other shit like that. If everybody was a hippie that "felt" what nature did, none of that stuff would happen, and we'd have no paper and a lot less room to live in.

Plus, I don't think animals even care about nature that much. I see animals tear plants and trees up all the time, for no good reason. Animals just don't do anywhere near the damage that humans do, and humans don't even do that much damage by themselves. We use tools to destroy the earth, and businesses to give us a reason to do so.

rather than miss what we lost way back when we were ALL living in africa. i miss what we lost much later. our memory. back in medievil times all things were recorded in memory. we can barly remember what we had for lunch the day previous. look it up yourself if you like but we had some incredable memories back then.
i have to admit though, a tail would be fun to have. but we never had the inuyasha ears. so stop lumping those in with talis. because we do still have ears.

Somehow I doubt we lost any incredible memory ability since the Middle Ages. Our memories are still amazing, even if some people put them to waste. Just look at Pokemon - how many friends of yours memorized all 150 Pokemon when the first games came out? Hell, I know people who memorized over 200 when the other games came out. That's 200 names and pictures of creatures. That's almost ten times as many letters of the alphabet, of most alphabets in the world, I believe.

We remember things based on importance. In this world, what you had for lunch yesterday isn't important, so you don't remember it. Instead, the brain takes the effort to remember what shows come on what night of the week and when appointments are and shit like that.