Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a scaled up primate brain

Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:14AM (#35229929)

Almost any human trained from a childhood would be able to do endurance hunting. Human endurance thanks to sweating and other traits is especially advantageous in hot climate: horses can't ourtun humans indefinitely as they overheat and can't cool down as effectively as humans, so eventually a trained human will catch up a horse (and eat it).

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by iamacyborg on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:45AM (#35230158)

The key there being a trained human.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by throwaway173738 on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:40AM (#35231353)

Doing it all your life since childhood counts as training for the sake of this argument.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by iamacyborg on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:51AM (#35231490)

I don’t know where you live but kids in the UK certainly don’t do much exercise through their childhood

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:50AM (#35233367)

They aren't expected to chase their food until in exhausts and can be easily killed and eaten.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by kaba0 on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:52AM (#35233414)

That’s just deliberately missing the point.

It is actually remarkable how quickly we can go from “untrained, can barely go down to the shop on foot without a racing heart” to running being barely a problem (unfortunately to many — it really is hard to burn more energy than what you normally eat with even quite long runs, we are that energy efficient at that).

But the actual point is that people before the agricultural revolution was more than fit enough for that, and evolutionarily speaking that is no time at all, so.. yes, not even being trained from childhood, just deciding to train for that hard, most people could definitely do that.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:49AM (#35233349)

If we take a person from a prehistorical hunter-gatherer society, you are either a trained and physically fit human, or a dead one.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by ClumsyPilot on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:38AM (#35230632)

If a horse run away to the point where you loose track of it, then it does not matter that you can run for a week

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by bryanrasmussen on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:58AM (#35231565)

unless you have also trained in tracking?

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by kaba0 on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:55AM (#35233467)

And hunter gatherers even to this day are absolutely great at that, plus we could/can pass the knowledge down generations. We literally hunted down many of the megafauna to extinction.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by dboreham on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:18AM (#35231839)

I'm not sure about wild horses, but I have spent some time observing moose, which seem like a similar design. They don't seem to have much of a sense of purpose. So once scared into running, I don't think they would run very far before stopping to browse on some berries or nice grass.

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Re:Newer data once again shows: the human brain is just a sc... by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:52AM (#35233423)

People skilled in persistence hunting [0] track their prey even if it runs away from their sight. It still gets exhausted / overheated faster than the pursuing human hunters.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

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