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What do you mean "we" ?
Well, duh. God didn’t create Adam and say, “And, oh yeah, here’s a spear.”
Who thought humans were apex predators? We didn’t come near that status until the bronze age. And without tools we still aren’t. We’ve got no natural weaponry, our senses are for crap so don’t know what’s going on around us, we’re slow, we’re weak. Until we get a 30-30 in our hand we’re hunted.
I’m sure quite a few homo sapiens have been eaten by leopards in our time.
Yes, leopards built the pyramids with their human slaves.
I have read that we have two sides to the brain where one side focuses predation and the other side focuses on avoiding on being preyed upon.
Nobody, anywhere, has ever advanced the theory that humans were ‘apex predators” in the sense that nothing would dare attack a lion.
They find one chimp skull with a few leopard toothmarks and conclude that humans were not invulnerable to predators. Wonder how much this cutting edge analysis cost us?
[[Leopard tooth marks were found on this Homo habilis jawbone.]]
And it was probably a few blind deaf old individuals who couldn’t defend themselves or who got seperated from the tribe- They find one toothmark and declare the leopard the dominate creature? Healthy individuals likely dominated the big cats en mass- but just like today, things can go wrong and a cat can kill a human-
No, it does not. They still only have two individuals. The sample size is far too small to draw any conclusions.
And this is why some of us still don’t trust cats.
The difference was the greater combat ability of homo manilla when acting in groups. One on one, leopards and other big cats were superior predators. Groups of homo manilla could drive groups of big cats from their kills.
Young men at work in offices and in clubs are still hunted by cougars.