Big vibes, i’m very risk averse and i just have to assume people like this exist to show us what things are dangerous, like they merrily go diving for oysters alone and a day later the tribe finds their body washed up on the shore half-eaten and can point to that to tell the kids to not be stupid like Jimbo was.
Or they do that for a year straight and are somehow fine, so the tribe now knows that this part of the coast is really safe and they don’t have to worry about it.
Big vibes, i’m very risk averse and i just have to assume people like this exist to show us what things are dangerous, like they merrily go diving for oysters alone and a day later the tribe finds their body washed up on the shore half-eaten and can point to that to tell the kids to not be stupid like Jimbo was.
Or they do that for a year straight and are somehow fine, so the tribe now knows that this part of the coast is really safe and they don’t have to worry about it.
Human probes, innately driven by a mutation to test their environment for the benefit of the tribe.