Pollywogs!

…apparently is an evolutionary feature:

 ”Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey”

Looks like the hunter-gatherer basically saw something to eat and just started chasing it…and as long as he didn’t lose sight of it, eventually it just wore out and he walked up and ate it.  We still needed to make tools, as our little dainty hands and teefs aren’t particularly good at rending a body into bite sized pieces…but our most important tool may have been our endurance running.

I know I’ve read about this before, because when I exersise, I pretend I am gazing into the deep distance at some antelope quarry, and it doesn’t matter how distressed or uncomfortable my body may feel at any given moment…really helps on the trampoline, there is some wall around 7 or 8 minutes where when I hit it, my body just begs please slow down for a bit…but once you’re through that it gets a lot eaiser…

‘“We can run in conditions that no other animal can run in,” Lieberman said…All they had to do is to run faster, for longer periods of time, than the slowest speed at which the animal started to gallop.’

When that little furry creature started panting and wheezing under the hot African sun, we were sweating buckets but grinning and looking forward to a very fresh steak…

 ”Adding credence to the theory, Lieberman said, is the fact that some aboriginal humans still practice persistence hunting today, and it remains an effective technique. It requires very minimal technology, has a high success rate, and yields a lot of meat.”