If you find yourself in a human vs. chimpanzee fight, you will have two options, stay and get beaten or run. I will choose the later and hope our distant kin don’t catch up.
In perspective, this is what will happen if you decide to stay and fight.
Because our folks are 1.35 times more powerful than you are, according to a study that compared the underlying biology and mechanics of chimpanzee and human muscles, going head to head is a bad idea and you won’t get your pound of flesh if you go for a pound to pound fight.
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More so, the fight can be yours if you happen to find a way of jumping better than the chimpanzee. The truth is there is no way that is possible, just as there is no way you can pull, push, or even lift better than the chimps. The bad news is in the primate line, we are the weakest in that aspect.
Do not be deceived that because adult chimps are generally smaller than adult humans, humans should have the day. This is because deciding factor in the fight will majorly be our strength in comparison to theirs.
Well, there is the consideration of the fact that we are smarter, but what greater smartness is there apart form once again, running from the fight?
Muscle is very important. With the evolution of man, we have come to develop the slow-twitch muscle fiber which are great in endurance, probably because the lives of our ancestors was more about that as they tracked long distances and chase games covering long areas.
The strength of Chimpanzees was once placed way above that on humans. Nevertheless, the 1.35 times more powerful strength was according to a study by Matthew O’Neill, an assistant professor at the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine in Phoenix.
More so, O’Neil added that while there are similarities between how muscle fibers pull two joints together to enable the body to lift or move, that of humans differ in fiber length and protein composition.
As a result of the structures, the power-producing capacity of chimpanzees has dwarfed that of man by a factor of 1.3.
Do not beat yourself, however, as the study reveals that because of this, apes and chimps are quicker to get tired than humans. That is why they have been unable to find new places and walk far in the search for food.
It is important to understand that the study does not consider body size as it looks at the physical property of individual muscle fibers instead. Importantly, both humans and chimps can increase their muscle fiber and hence gain more strength through exercise.
The good news is that if you find yourself in a human vs. chimp fight, you can decide to be as shameless as myself and run away. The development of the human muscle is such that allows you to walk and run fast and at a greater distance.
That is the only way we can win on an ordinary day.
Source: Livescience.com
