This has been circulating the birb-site. It's about specific adaptations Homo Sapiens has for persistence-hunting. Specifically, how we're engineered to chase our prey until they fall down from heat-prostration. This explains much of our psyche.
@sysadmin1138 I remember this one from the 80s. We do an awful lot of gathering for a specialised persistence-hunter, even if you don't believe culture is the best way to explain "our" pysche(s).
@ghost_bird A lot of those endurance adaptations apply to persistence-hunting plants as well, down to actual farming.
@sysadmin1138 So more a persistence gatherer, then? (I think this is worth highlighting because there's lot of cultural baggage in the insistence on the importance of hunting.)
@ghost_bird The two probably came mostly together. It takes a long time to fell a tree using stone tools, and yet so many ancient cultures did that. A lot. And used fire as a method of agriculture. Persistence-anything requires long-term planning. Stone tools require endurance in application.
@sysadmin1138 So an interesting question for me, then, is - why focus on hunting if the two came together? And if we focus on gathering, do the explanations of much of our psyche still actually work?
@sysadmin1138 (Sorry for the tone, by the way. I had an annoying morning and evo-psych tends to make me snippy.)
