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Re:Killing it: From handaxes to spears, no difference in hun... by jessaustin on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:22PM (#26549827)
...that’s striking evidence that earlier Middle Pleistocene hominins had achieved the ability to efficiently hunt prey species in the proportions that made ecological sense for them. The fact that later hominins selected the same prey sizes suggests that this aspect of hominin hunting was near equilibrium regardless of the precise toolkits they used.

This makes sense phylogeneticly. Chimpanzees also hunt prey of various sizes.

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