From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Tue Sep 24 1996 - 22:55:39 MDT
John K Clark wrote:
> 1) Why did bipedalism develop? It's very hard to do, makes us slow, and
> causes us back problems.
>
Bipedalism may be slow, but it made us the most efficient runners on the
planet.
Humans can outrun and outlast any other running animal. Two men can run
down and
exhaust any other grazing mammal. Team hunting by running down prey is
called
cursorial hunting, like wolves do.
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