Not necessarily ~where~ humans found water – I understand it was lakes, streams, etc. – but our bodies seem so unnaturally built for hunching over a lake and drinking water. We don’t have 4 legs like other animals so we can’t do it very easily and I imagine it would hurt your back to be leaning over water like that. Did they scoop it up with their hands or something? I’m just curious if anyone definitively knows the answer to this. Thanks
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Probably like chimps do.
And chimps actually have lots of different ways to drink water. They use their hands to cup, they use folded leaves as cups, and they even use “brushes,” they make themselves.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/science-technology/chimps-create-unique-sticks-to-drink-water-348532
This would indicate that early humans used similar methods, and this could have been some of our “first tools.”
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