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5 points I_Nidhi | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.4s | source
1. throwawayffffas ◴[] No.44570176[source]
Probably not. Several evolutionary hypothesis, suggest that reliance on hunting is what made us different from the rest of the great apes[1][2]. There is literally an extinction event caused by our hunting[3]. Where early humans showed up megafauna quickly went extinct.[4]

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_hypothesis [2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis [3]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction [4]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna#Megafaunal_mass_exti...