When our great ape ancestors descended from the forests and into the open plains their primary sources of protein were fleet deer-like creatures. These animals couldn’t be sneaked-up on by humans. Even big cat predators have a certain amount of trouble doing this and they have explosive speed and deadly equipment. Humans had a well documented set of skills that they employed that you are determined to underestimate.
We still employ this hidden talent to this day in a few instances.
Modern day marathon runners use persistence running, first utilised in organised battle a few thousand years ago.
In modern day selection for special forces, such as the SAS, the final component is a five or six days grueling forced navigation test, whereby the candidate just traverses a mountain range from point-to-point carrying an impossibly heavy back pack. Virtually no sleep and very little food. They do this day after day after day. This skill taps into persistence running development as an evolutionary advantage. It allows the soldier to survive in harsh circumstances, such as escape and evasion.
Persistence hunting is so well studied and excepted that your objection is not really clear. Nor have you really explained how we would have jumped the hundreds of thousands year gap from living in trees to missile weapons against faster prey. Shoulder development doesn’t do it. And great apes do have powerful shoulders today.
When our great ape ancestors descended from the forests and into the open plains their primary sources of protein were fleet deer-like creatures. These animals couldn’t be sneaked-up on by humans. Even big cat predators have a certain amount of trouble doing this and they have explosive speed and deadly equipment. Humans had a well documented set of skills that they employed that you are determined to underestimate.
We still employ this hidden talent to this day in a few instances.
Modern day marathon runners use persistence running, first utilised in organised battle a few thousand years ago.
In modern day selection for special forces, such as the SAS, the final component is a five or six days grueling forced navigation test, whereby the candidate just traverses a mountain range from point-to-point carrying an impossibly heavy back pack. Virtually no sleep and very little food. They do this day after day after day. This skill taps into persistence running development as an evolutionary advantage. It allows the soldier to survive in harsh circumstances, such as escape and evasion.
Persistence hunting is so well studied and excepted that your objection is not really clear. Nor have you really explained how we would have jumped the hundreds of thousands year gap from living in trees to missile weapons against faster prey. Shoulder development doesn’t do it. And great apes do have powerful shoulders today.