>>13759475every iteration of life starts with giants, and eventually extinction events allow smaller and more capable forms to flourish
the first invertebrates were huge because maintaining a skeleton takes a lot of resources that could otherwise be used for growth
but once all the big guys went extinct, small things with skeletons outcompeted small things without skeletons
big dinosaurs prevented smart mammals from ever evolving, but once they went extinct the small mammals outcompeted the small lizards
the first apes to walk on land were beta cucks who were forced to do so while the alphas took the good jungle, and most of them went extinct
same with the first fish to walk on land
next iteration will be birds
