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Aside from the brain, William, humans have versatility. Humans are a non-specialist animal, unlike much of the rest of the animal kingdom, and cannot do anything as well as the animals that maximize their strengths in certain aspects. Dolphins and otters swim better, deer and steer run faster, horses and bears are stronger, hyenas and alligators bite harder, squirrels and martens climb better, rats and camels withstand dehydration better, wolves and snakes can endure hunger for longer, foxes and gazelles can jump higher, and tortoises can live longer than humans. The speak to the superiority of animals over all. However, it is the composite attributes of a human's size, maneuverability, durability, heat dissipation, and tool manipulation that made the species successful in competing with other animals for resources of food and water. Reasoning was the one ability that allowed humans to dominate other animals in capacities in which the human animal should not have been able to compete (i.e., polar habitation). Besides, humans are just ornery.
If humans existed in the world of "Slop" they'd be downright dangerous. Humans are envious and want to be on top no matter what the obstacle. If the other denizens of their world are more powerful, humans will conspire, study, and concentrate their cunning on taking down whatever is in their way to their "rightful" place. I think this would be so simply because of how technology, science, and philosophy grows in spurts that neatly matches with the chronology of wars.
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