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Man cannot eat raw meat and definitely cannot eat meat that is not fresh. Every other predator is able to eat raw meat and meat that is not fresh. Why has evolution favored a creature with such special dietary restrictions? When man first hunted, man must have also had access to fire. The ability to create fire precedes the ability to hunt. It is safe to therefore to assume, that man must have been a herbivore. Then after discovering how to make fire, man was only then enabled to hunt. Our evolutionary digestive system does not favor man as a hunter. I reject the notion that man was ever an omnivore by evolutionary design.
The majority of the Korowai clans live in tree houses on their isolated territory.
SOURCE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai_people
Let's not be any more stupid about this than we have to be.
I think the more important consequence of this is that it pretty much debunks any claims that humans can't have lived in trees. BTW: Is anyone claiming that before civilisation, in the wild state, that humans primarily lived in trees?
It is a rather odd thread this one. It seems to be full of claims that mankind couldn't possibly do things that there are plenty of examples of mankind doing.
Hello all.What has this got to do with the question? I have specifically mentioned that an important part of human suruval 'in the wild' is based on advantages we have such as social organisation. So, I would arrange with others from my tribe to keep watch and to wake the others if any large predators approach. We'd then deal with them as a group. Sorted. It was pointed out to you on page one of this thread that large predators are typically scared of Bushmen.
Hello Ecco.I wonder how people living in central and southern Africa survived before 1500 AD what with all the predators sharing the land with them.
I guess they didn't. I guess they were all eaten up.
Hello all.
You might find this recent article interesting in light of the previous posts.
"Around one million years ago, early humans were skilful at using the landscape features of the Kenyan Rift
to ambush and kill their prey, according to new research published in Scientific Reports. The area was a popular
grazing site for larger animals (e.g., giant gelada baboons, elephants, hippopotami and the spotted hyenas) due to
its locally high nutrient levels and the presence of an ancient freshwater lake, together with the relative lack of
dangerous predators, such as lions." (Science Daily)
It is not hard to notice that lions needed to be omitted from the narration. Why do they need to ommit the large
predators? If early man was a hunter, then there exists a serious difficulty, fresh meat attracts predators. So the
scientific community is well aware that they must exclude the large predators, in order for early man to safely hunt.
Some folk on this thread do not seem to understand that large predators and man, cannot coexist. That is why
the scientists need to develop an environment, where early man can exist. That environment must be free of
large predators.
The odour of meat is an invitation to all predators. Whether the smell is from the carcass, or the smell is all over
the hunters. The large predators will be drawn to the smell of the meat. If you carry the meat back to camp, then
that is where the predators will go. Lions and early man as a hunter, is not a scenario that has any substance.
Please resist the idea of early man carrying a hindquarter of zebra over his shoulder. Early man and the odour of
meat is an open invitation to all predators. You must flesh out another possible variation in the evolutionary tale.
One needs to seriously consider a walled habitat that early man could call home. As far as I know from archeology,
mankind in the past always lived in walled enclosures.
Hello Ecco.
Mankind will destroy all large predators, that is the only way that man could move into southern
Africa. You cannot set up camp with women and children in a predator rich location.
Folk need a village with walls to keep predators out at night. Archaeology illustrates this point, all old
cities in the deep past, had high and thick walls.
I repeat, a family cannot sit around a fire at night in a predator rich environment.
One wonders how the other animals got by... and I don't recall anyone saying humans didn't regularly get eaten by large predators; natural selection - it's a cruel world.It is not hard to notice that lions needed to be omitted from the narration. Why do they need to ommit the large
predators? If early man was a hunter, then there exists a serious difficulty, fresh meat attracts predators. So the
scientific community is well aware that they must exclude the large predators, in order for early man to safely hunt.
Hello FrumiousBandersnatch.One wonders how the other animals got by... and I don't recall anyone saying humans didn't regularly get eaten by large predators; natural selection - it's a cruel world.
Yes, after eons of existence. That's like saying no one lived or did anything until the year 2000 because most of them are dead.Hello FrumiousBandersnatch.
The animals in general did not get by, endless extinction is the real story of the past.
Hello Ecco.
Mankind will destroy all large predators, that is the only way that man could move into southern
Africa. You cannot set up camp with women and children in a predator rich location. ...
I repeat, a family cannot sit around a fire at night in a predator rich environment.
Folk need a village with walls to keep predators out at night. Archaeology illustrates this point, all old
cities in the deep past, had high and thick walls.
Hello all.
You might find this recent article interesting in light of the previous posts.
"Around one million years ago, early humans were skilful at using the landscape features of the Kenyan Rift
to ambush and kill their prey, according to new research published in Scientific Reports. The area was a popular
grazing site for larger animals (e.g., giant gelada baboons, elephants, hippopotami and the spotted hyenas) due to
its locally high nutrient levels and the presence of an ancient freshwater lake, together with the relative lack of
dangerous predators, such as lions." (Science Daily)
It is not hard to notice that lions needed to be omitted from the narration. Why do they need to ommit the large
predators? If early man was a hunter, then there exists a serious difficulty, fresh meat attracts predators. So the
scientific community is well aware that they must exclude the large predators, in order for early man to safely hunt.
Some folk on this thread do not seem to understand that large predators and man, cannot coexist. That is why
the scientists need to develop an environment, where early man can exist. That environment must be free of
large predators.
Many hominin species went extinct too. Yet there are plenty of savannah species still left for the big predators to hunt, but homo sapiens is the only hominin to make it to the present. Most creatures become extinct, but some don't. Your point is?The animals in general did not get by, endless extinction is the real story of the past.
Assumptions!You would not be employing any assumptions or inferring, I hope.
Still do.If primitive man's fossils are found in the same original strata (not re-deposited strata) with fossils of large predators then of course they co-existed, and probably routinely killed each other.
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