Flying like a bird would require way more than wings. Hollow bones, giant chest muscles, rewired nerves, and absurd amounts of food would transform you into something barely human anymore.
you don't need large wings if you can flap them fast enough, harpies are heavier than most other eagles but their wings are on the smaller side, you don't need a keel bone if you evolve like a bat
Make a bat version of this analogy. That would actually be more physiologically accurate as a fellow mammal, and maybe borrow a few pterosaur features too since mechanically the flight movements between those two groups are physically more analogous to each other than either is to bird flight.
"according to all aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly because its body weight is not in the right proportion to its wingspan, yet it defies these laws and flies anyway"
Never thought I would see a MHA reference in Kurzgesagt
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