JESUS CHRIST CAN Veeky Forums SAVE Veeky Forums FROM THE "HUMANS ARE GREAT NATURAL ENDURANCE RUNNERS" AND "PERSISTENCE...

JESUS CHRIST CAN Veeky Forums SAVE Veeky Forums FROM THE "HUMANS ARE GREAT NATURAL ENDURANCE RUNNERS" AND "PERSISTENCE HUNTING" MEMES?

It's fucking everywhere, these retards are spreading this bullshit like it's fact.
Humans are shit-tier endurance runners and need special industrial shoes to run decently on a flat track, we don't have hooves, our skin is way more fragile than that of other animals, being bipedal means we put more much weight and stress on our feet which means any sharp object we step on in the wild will hurt us. In the faulty terrain of the wilderness we wouldn't last 15 minutes running. Fuck off with this shit. We hunted in groups, ambushing prey, creating traps, throwing heavy rocks at them way before we invented any tools. If some sub-Saharan African tribe practices persistence hunting maybe that's why they remained a bunch of primitives.

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first, we must get rid of the
>darwinian evolution
meme. Because civilization began with wills to power.

Human beings are great walkers, in that we use a fraction of energy than most animals do in locomotion.

>eing bipedal means we put more much weight and stress on our feet which means any sharp object we step on in the wild will hurt us

We walk differently without shoes on. We impact the ground with the balls of our feet first as opposed to striking flat (as with shoes).

Persistence running? That's another thing. The man of Marathon died after his 26 mile run. Heart tissue doesn't regenerate. We don't get heart cancer but we also don't recover from torn heart muscle. So persistence running is a very specialized thing limited to a few tribes with certain genetics that allow for it.

If you can bleed an animal, you can outwalk it to exhaustion.

Humans are great endurance runners and endurance hunting did actually occur you shit flinging monkey. The only thing that's idiotic is the belief that it was ever widespread. Which takes ten seconds of rational thought to debunk, would you rather chase your prey 100s of miles over the course of several days or stab it with a pointy stick?

>We walk differently without shoes on.
irrelevant to the point I was making, compare the influence of stepping on a sharp object if you're a quadruped vs. if you're bipedal, only a fraction of the body-weight is being put over the object in the first case vs. almost (thanks to some momentum) the whole body-weight in the case of humans.

>Humans are great endurance runners
in a pre-historical context, no we aren't, read the OP.

That's why you walk on the balls of your feet. So that your weight IS more balanced than stepping with the entire force of your foot like with normal shoes. There's numerous micromuscles within the toe and ball region that atrophy if you stick with shoe walking style.

persistance hunting is not 'running after prey for days on end' it just means following wounded or disabled prey rather than needing a one-strike kill like large cats for example which use so much energy hunting that without clean kills they would end up calorie negative

No we don't fucking need special industrial shoes to run decently on a flat track, what are you, fucking retarded?

>in a pre-historical context, no we aren't, read the OP.
We are pretty much the same humans we were 10 000 years ago, give or take a couple of inches and a bit of mixing of races.

If you walk barefooted from the time you could walk, you would develope som hefty skin undereath your foot. Besides, making some makeshift sandals is pretty easy, pic related.

If we managed to make spears and bows, we sure as hell managed to make footwear.

And this isnt about being bipedal, but how we exhaust heat. For example, a dog sweat primarily through it's tounge and paws, and pants heavily to get rid of body heat. We humans use our whole body as a means of getting rid of body heat. We share that with all primates and horses.

Also this

Why are you such a blithering fuck?

what about the fact that humans uniquely can carry water with them

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

>Humans are the only surviving primate species who practice persistence hunting

OP is a faggot

Even my uni zoology prof was able to run a red deer to exhaustion in Scotland

Humans have been making shoes forever. Just because we need a tool to be good at something it doesn't mean we aren't good.

It's irrelevant however, because our feet soles are very adabtable and create a coarse layer if we walk barefoot. Also we can look at where we're going.

But it’s true
We’re runners
Distance and/or sprinting

But we can achieve much more if we work together and use our brains.
Solo persistence hunting was probably first done by some virgin autist who had no friends.
Explains why everyone here is defending it.

But how were they so great endurance runners when they were tiptoeing around everywhere

youtu.be/EszwYNvvCjQ

>humans need shoes to run
t. fat fuck who hasn't left his basement in years

Humans run better without shoes. Your generic shoe really fucks up your form.

>Solo persistence hunting
I don't think I've ever heard someone claim it was done solo

>Humans run better without shoes. Your generic shoe really fucks up your form.
Implying you have form

>any sharp object we step on in the wild will hurt us. In the faulty terrain of the wilderness we wouldn't last 15 minutes running.
that greatly depends on the terrain. grass, sand, rock? you can go weeks without even finding anything sharp to step on.

Humans are not the pinnacle of evolution.
We are an evolutionary dead end.

>>evolutionary dead end
>>takes over pretty much the entire land surface of the planet
You got a peculiar definition of the term dead end.

>pinnacle of
that's not how evolution works please kys

>Humans are shit-tier endurance runners
Humans are one of the most energy efficient walkers
>need special industrial shoes to run decently on a flat track
Calloused feet are very hard and you can run over hard grass, dirt, and gravel no problem. Humans have much more surface area on their feet than hooves animals of the same weight.

When was the last time you saw a trilobite?

*runs a marathon barefoot*

You kind of have a point. Once humans started migrating to different environments and developing new weapons and traps they often did not need to chase down prey, however they could if needs be.

If humans were genetically inferior to all other creatures in every respect we would be extinct, it is just edge to declare "humans a shit". We do have some superior physical abilities, we are absolutely covered in sweat glands compared to other animals, except maybe hippos and a few others. Horses sweat but can't gallop for long before overheating, it is possible for a marathon runner to catch up to a horse given enough time, it follows that prey would dart out of sight and hunters that could track them over long distances would eventually catch up to them.

When was the last time you saw a human?

user you know he doesn't leave his basement, that's just cruel to ask.

This, and we can plan ahead by drinking lots of water and eating to prepare. That would give us the leg up on an animal that only drinks to satiate themselves and isn't really expecting the run of it's life.

I still don't see why we wouldn't just use a ranged weapon or set up a trap/ambush. Much more efficient. Endurance hunting just defies logic, why would you run hundreds of miles just to catch something that probably won't even give back the calories you lost?

how will humans go extinct

>I only wear Crocs: the post

>Humans are an evolutionary dead end

You're thinking of niggers.

Look up the man vs horse race in Texas. Men have won a couple of times.

Because the animal can SEE you and you have to cover.

In mountainous/rocky places the beast has to expel more effort to avoid terrain. Hot places humans have the water advantage and food.

>dude we're out of ammo, we'll have to use our rifles as clubs to survive
>but we would achieve much more if we use bullets

have you tried walking bare-feet your entire life?

Pre Agriculture Humans were much better and smarter in every respect to modern people.

>being this fat

Is it just one autist or is there seriously a community of people on this board who can't grasp evolution, the fact that genetic populations change over time through natural selection?

T. Jared Diamond

>Is it just one autist or is there seriously a community of people on this board who can't grasp evolution
There's a community of them, they are called Americans.

I'm an American as are probably most people on this board, most of us understand evolution.

>It's fucking everywhere, these retards are spreading this bullshit like it's fact.

It's proof that you can make the public believe any sort of nonsense if you have a slick enough ad campaign.

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Came in here to mention this, there's one in England too and a human wins sometimes.

>need special industrial shoes to run decently on a flat track
Are you fucking retarded?

Look up man vs horse race where the man runs barefoot in the wild full of little rocks and grass covering ground in such a way that he can't see where he's stepping on at that speed.
such race doesn't exist but the human would get soundly BTFO

>THIS THING THAT HUMANS HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, IT'S BULLSHIT.
lol

our superior physical ability is our motor coordination.

we evolved to throw objects with extremely high precision, to get the killing blow against prey and not have to run after it for hours being susceptible to other predators attacking you or stealing your prey.

The two are not mutually exclusive you basement dweller

>Came in here to mention this, there's one in England too and a human wins sometimes.
>2 out of 37 isn't that bad

your prey isnt going to run "a hundred" fuckin miles you idiot.

Animals exhaust rather quickly, they don't get that far.

have you ever fucking heard of callouses?

>let's put elite steroid-abusing athletes on a flat track with XXI-century running shoes against domesticated horses who are kept all day inside a stall
>that proves humans are better natural endurance runners than horses

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There seem to be a lot more retarded, semi-schizo christfag posts around today than usual. I wonder if we're getting raided.

it does

It's a guy going berserk I think

>some self-proclaimed ape talking about grasping
go climb a tree