'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book

Washington University in St. Louis ^ | February 2, 2005 | By Neil Schoenherr

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Question_Assumptions]

This, of course, explains why chimpanzee mailes for murderous war parties that hunt down and kill males from rival groups in vicious rituals, right? I'm calling BS.

[inquest]

Ping, in case you're curious.

[dr_pat]

Smile. See the dentition? Not the teeth of an organism evolved to eat vegetables and grains exclusively.

...I rest my case...

[Spok]

Unfortunately, thanks to the politicization of science in matters such as global warming, anthropology, sociology, etc., one must always look on these studies with a jaundiced eye. Is it science, or more revisionist PC crap?

[inquest]

Somebody around here had a tagline: "If God didn't intend for us to eat animals, why did he make them taste so good?"

[Publius Scipio]

Bollocks. Since when did hunting and being hunted become mutually exclusive?

[exnavy]

What about the mosquito, I'm fairly sure they also preyed on early man, and woman.

[Teacher317]

Eagles preyed on humans?!

[kitkat]

***Is it science, or more revisionist PC crap?***

Revisionist PC crap!

By the way, I wonder how the professor thinks they could eat nuts if they couldn't eat meat.

[The Loan Arranger]

Huh? Explain this then: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=tZ3Aq4oACH&isbn=1592990002&itm=6

[45Auto]

Not only that but chimps are meat eaters; they prey upon smaller monkey species. I think it is very tenous to suppose that the nature of dental types precludes Australopithecus as hunters/meat eaters.

[maestro]

When 'man' gets angry,......and is in-raged at God's commandments....and become jealous,....he builts Pyramids for relief of stress, or simply drinks beer and murders.

ooops....that is another pagan book.

Sorry

/sarcasm

[KarlInOhio]

There were hyenas as big as bears, as well as saber-toothed cats and many other mega-sized carnivores, reptiles and raptors. Australopithecus afarensis didn't have tools, didn't have big teeth and was three feet tall. He was using his brain, his agility and his social skills to get away from these predators. "He wasn't hunting them," says Sussman. "He was avoiding them at all costs."

That's about as dumb as saying that house cats aren't predators because coyotes can catch and eat them. Early and pre humans weren't pulling down mammoths with their bare hands. More likely they were chucking rocks at birds and rabbits (or similar animals).

[UseYourHead]

Sussman says. "We wanted evidence, not just theory..."

I like how the "scientists" can say things like that but when normal folks discuss the "theory" of evolution, that kind of phrase creates a firestorm.

[Vigilanteman]

Ok. So man was originally a sociable, peace-loving victim and prey to larger, stronger beasts. He was also in harmony with nature and lived off the land, mainly gathering fruits and nuts. He also had a poorly developed brain, was docile and easy to manage. Sort of like the ideal citizen of the world plantation, eh?

Then he discovered conservatism, learned how to harness the land and decided to quit being a victim all the time. He also discovered some of the beasts which were preying on him were not invincible and, in some cases, were even yummy. The next thing you know, he got uppidity and wanted to govern himself and run his own live rather than being a docile, obedient sheeple.

And ever since, the self-appointed masters of Liberalism have been trying to get man to go back to his natural state of being docile prey with them in charge.

[Question_Assumptions]

I also think it's incredibly strange that he'd expect the dentition to eat meat would develop before the species actually ate meat. It's the meat eating that would develop the pressure to develop meat eating teeth. Even then, it says that their teeth were a lot like modern humans and, surprise, there are modern humans who eat raw meat both historically and even today.

[NoClones]

what these ding-a-lings don't say is that Australopithecus afarensis was a dead-end species...

...kind of like them!

[puppets]

I think that may have been spoken by Homer on the Simpson's one time, or a variation of that, when Lisa became a vegetarian.