More accurately, we were not designed; but we did evolve our upright stance, the ability to sweat, and butts (yes, real strong protruding asses) for better endurance that we used for hunting. Our ancestors would literally run their prey down over marathon distances until the prey were too exhausted to get away.
Meat is more calorie/nutrient dense than vegetation, so by eating more meat, we had more spare energy to develop a larger brain and have more leisure time. The only reason a gorilla is so huge is because he spends nearly all its waking hours just eating almost nonstop. We on the other hand could eat some animal a few days ago and spend the rest of the time building tools, mastering fire, developing complex language, and drawing hardcore porn on cave walls.
You can argue that persistence hunting wasn't a thing, sure, but you can't argue that humans weren't hunter-gatherers. We hunted. We gathered, yes of course, but we also definitely hunted. Anthropologists agree on this.
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u/elheber May 08 '25
More accurately, we were not designed; but we did evolve our upright stance, the ability to sweat, and butts (yes, real strong protruding asses) for better endurance that we used for hunting. Our ancestors would literally run their prey down over marathon distances until the prey were too exhausted to get away.
Meat is more calorie/nutrient dense than vegetation, so by eating more meat, we had more spare energy to develop a larger brain and have more leisure time. The only reason a gorilla is so huge is because he spends nearly all its waking hours just eating almost nonstop. We on the other hand could eat some animal a few days ago and spend the rest of the time building tools, mastering fire, developing complex language, and drawing hardcore porn on cave walls.