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All research and sources are linked below. 📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES: ▸ Endurance running & persistence hunting — Bramble & Lieberman (2004, Nature 432:345–352). Our running anatomy is a trait of the genus Homo originating about 2 million years ago. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03052 ▸ High-speed throwing — Roach, Venkadesan, Rainbow & Lieberman (2013, Nature 498:483–486). Cocking the arm stores elastic energy in the shoulder like a slingshot and releases the fastest motion the human body makes; the anatomy appears together ~2 million years ago in Homo erectus. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12267 ▸ Chimpanzee strength — O'Neill et al. (2017, PNAS), "Chimpanzee super strength and human skeletal muscle evolution." Chimp muscle is ~1.35× stronger pound-for-pound, yet throws at only ~20 mph. ▸ Shared intentionality ("we" vs "I" mode) — Tomasello et al. (2012, Current Anthropology 53:673–692), "Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation," and Tomasello et al. (2005, Behavioral and Brain Sciences), "Understanding and sharing intentions." ▸ Megafauna extinctions — Sandom, Faurby, Sandel & Svenning (2014, Proc. R. Soc. B 281:20133254). Extinction severity tracks human arrival — minimal in Africa, severe in Australia and the Americas. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3254 ▸ The human "super predator" — Darimont, Fox, Bryan & Reimchen (2015, Science 349:858–860). Humans kill adult prey at up to 14× the median rate of other predators, with especially intense exploitation of land carnivores and fish. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4249 Experts@Minnesota ▸ Fear of the human voice (Africa) — Zanette, Frizzelle, Clinchy et al. (2023, Current Biology 33:4689–4696). Wildlife in Greater Kruger fled human speech far more than lion sounds, dogs, or gunshots. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08... Phys.org ▸ Fear of the human voice (North America) — Smith et al. (2017, Proc. R. Soc. B) and Suraci et al. (2019, Ecology Letters), "Fear of humans as apex predators… from mountain lions to mice." Wild pumas freeze and abandon their kills at the sound of human conversation. ▸ Turkana cut-marked bone — Pobiner, Pante & Keevil (2023, Scientific Reports 13:9896). Nine stone-tool cut marks on a 1.45-million-year-old shin bone (KNM-ER 741) — the oldest clear evidence of one hominin butchering another. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35... ▸ The knife-arm warrior — Micarelli et al. (2018, Journal of Anthropological Sciences), "Survival to amputation in the pre-antibiotic era." A 6th–8th-century Lombard man at Povegliano Veronese, northern Italy, whose amputated forearm was fitted with a knife. ▸ Cladh Hallan composite mummies — Parker Pearson et al. (2005, Antiquity), "Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain." Two skeletons on South Uist, Scotland, each assembled from several different people. ▸ Jericho plastered skulls — Kathleen Kenyon's Jericho excavations; Pre-Pottery Neolithic B plastered skulls (~9,000 years old), shell-inlaid eyes, kept beneath house floors. ———————————————————— PEOPLE & SITES MENTIONED: ▸ Daniel Lieberman — Harvard paleoanthropologist behind the endurance-running and high-speed-throwing research: the body built not to win a fight, but to never stop. ▸ Michael Tomasello — Psychologist whose "shared intentionality" work explains why humans hunt in "we" mode while every other animal hunts in "I" mode. ▸ Chris Darimont — University of Victoria ecologist who quantified humans as a global "super predator." ▸ Liana Zanette & Michael Clinchy — Western University ecologists behind the Kruger and puma playback experiments on fear of the human voice. ▸ Briana Pobiner — Smithsonian paleoanthropologist who identified the oldest evidence of a hominin butchering another for meat. ▸ Povegliano Veronese, Jericho, Cladh Hallan & Turkana — the four sites behind "the things we leave behind." ———————————————————— 🎨 Animation by Elite Skull ———————————————————— #humans #terrifying #apexpredator #evolution #persistencehunting #megafauna #humanevolution #anthropology #archaeology #prehistory #superpredator #science #explainer #animation #education #history #paleontology #homoerectus #survival #caveman ‪@Inkexplainer96‬ ‪@AxenCool‬ ‪@Maxcrow-t6i‬ ‪@EliteSkull01‬