• Question: Why can we not fly?

    Asked by preshous333 to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 1 May 2012.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 1 May 2012:


      Because we don’t have wings! It would take a huge amount of energy and very large wings for us to stay airborne, which probably wouldn’t have made us very efficient at surviving when food was scarce. Seeing as we can get by just fine without them, there has never been an evolutionary pressure for us to find a way to fly!

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