How Humans Survived Earth Deadliest Predators?

Tonight you'll check that your door is locked without thinking about it. Two million years ago, someone lay in the dark on the African savanna with no door, no lock and no walls. So how did a small, slow, clawless ape survive the predators that hunted us? And what finally changed the odds? In this video, we follow the evidence: a child's skull from a South African quarry, two puncture holes in a fossil skull, a million-year-old fire, a toothless skull from Georgia, and eight wooden spears pulled out of a German coal mine. Chapters (estimated, adjust to your final cut): 0:00 The door you lock tonight 1:00 Were we always the hunters? 2:05 The leopard's signature at Swartkrans 3:45 Fire in the cave 4:40 The real answer: the group 6:00 Throwing and the Schöningen spears 6:55 The cost 7:30 Could you survive it? 8:00 One more thing Subscribe to The Past Bound for more stories about how humans survived the impossible. And tell me in the comments which threat we should face next. Sources: Dart, R., Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa, Nature, 1925 Berger, L. and Clarke, R., Eagle involvement in accumulation of the Taung child fauna, Journal of Human Evolution, 1995 Brain, C.K., The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy, University of Chicago Press, 1981 Brain, C.K. and Sillen, A., Evidence from the Swartkrans cave for the earliest use of fire, Nature, 1988 Berna, F. et al., Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, PNAS, 2012 Lordkipanidze, D. et al., The earliest toothless hominin skull, Nature, 2005 Seyfarth, R., Cheney, D. and Marler, P., Monkey responses to three different alarm calls, Science, 1980 Roach, N. et al., Elastic energy storage in the shoulder and the evolution of high-speed throwing in Homo, Nature, 2013 Thieme, H., Lower Palaeolithic hunting spears from Germany, Nature, 1997 Koch, P. and Barnosky, A., Late Quaternary extinctions: state of the debate, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2006 IUCN Red List entries for leopard and lion (verify before publishing) #humanevolution #prehistory #couldyousurvive