The mistake was developing higher brain functions.

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Our lung-fish ancestors were cowards. When the seas got too spicy, they swam to the shores and marshes to hide like hikikomori neets.

Fortunately, our much closer mammalian cousins were brave enough to swim back, and now some of them tip over boats for fun.