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we don't need to be

There is a neurological tradeoff between being capable of fine motor skills or being able to recruit muscle fibers fully on short notice. Most animals get much more power out of their muscles, kilo for kilo, than a typical human, but few match us for devising novel, complex motions beyond the instinctual. We put everything into being able to speak and to make and use complex tools.

Repeated training does allow a human to recruit a greater share of the relevant muscle fibers into any given movement, but overall we will not match other animals for improvised general strength.

Humans have extremely good eyesight. Pretty much the only animals with better eyesight are birds of prey and a selection of invertebrates that can see UV light/distinguish higher FPS/see more colors. Almost every other animal has trash eyesight by human standards.

we invented the chair

The silverback gorilla is kind of an outlier amongst apes tbf. Despite the insistence of the Joe Rogans of the world, if you dedicated your life to athletics you be stronger in whatever area you decide to pursue than a chimp. But it would pack a lot of strength into a smaller package, and for that it has "sacrificed" motor control or endurance (Depending on what biologist you ask. I'm not into the science enough to tell you)

we figured out that "pick up pointy stick, drive prey until it dies of heat stroke" works better than raw strength