Throughout history an average wild animal has had the ability to kill an average human being so how did we as a species not only survive but ended up on the top of the food chain?
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We teach our young, and pass along knowledge with our ability to communicate better than any other species. Cooperation ALWAYS beats competition. We have bigger brains, so we can plan ahead, and learn from the past mistakes of others. “Approach from downwind” is something we learned early and passed along, “run the herd off cliffs” is how we harvested giant animals. “Use tools to advantage” is how we use atlatl and spears to take down thick skinned prey. “Trick the fish into biting bait on a hook and wire” “wrap fibers into ropes and weave them into nets” “use wood to make fences and scare animals Into them” “catch chickens but don’t kill them and eat their eggs instead”
All of this passed down knowledge gives us more of an advantage than big teeth big muscles and running fast gives anything else put together. We have lost humans to Saber tooth tigers and mammoths… those species are lost forever because of humans ability to remember perfect and TEACH OTHERS how to deal with them.
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