The Internet in Ancient Times
Welcome to the stone age... or the bronze age... or the iron age... heck, anything with an 'age' is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.
This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.
CODE OF LAWS
1 - Be civil. No name calling, no fighting, keep your flint hand axes inside your leather pouches at all times.
2 - Keep the AI stuff to a minimum. It gets annoying and old fashioned memes are more fun for everyone.
3 - None of this newfangled modern 21st century nonsense. We don't even know what "21st century" means.
4 - No porn/explicit content. The king is sensitive about these things.
5 - No lemmy.world TOS violations will be tolerated. So there.
6 - There is no ~~rule~~ law 6.
Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.
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Persistence hunting is incredibly overblown and an extremely inefficient use of calories.
Found the gazelle
Oh you think sweating is unique?
What other animals can throw like a human and can craft weapons? Projectiles were the big leap not mindless running.
It is widely assumed that the edge human species had was the ability for long distance movement through a high ability to regulate the body temperature very effectively. Through that humans were able to secure a steady and relatively safe and reliable supply of important nutrients, which allowed, among others, the human brain to develop further.
This gave the human species the foundation to grow and settle in other environments and also to focus time and energy on other things like learning to throw or craft tools and weapons, which then solidified and expanded the advantage that had been achieved by very unique biological traits.
So one probably wasn't possible without the other, but the human species needed both of those developments to make it into the dominant species it now is. It's not a question of one or the other, one came first and was necessary to be able to develop the second, so in a way you're right and wrong.
By people not paying attention to what we actually know about the oldest human societies. The human shoulder likely took far longer to evolve than increased sweat and lower body hair. Nothing can throw with the accuracy of a human.
Hard to spend much time and energy on anything other than running down prey when it takes endless hours just to catch it, then having to haul it back to others who need to be fed.
Potentially but like I said one of these is completely overblown in significance.
When our great ape ancestors descended from the forests and into the open plains their primary sources of protein were fleet deer-like creatures. These animals couldn't be sneaked-up on by humans. Even big cat predators have a certain amount of trouble doing this and they have explosive speed and deadly equipment. Humans had a well documented set of skills that they employed that you are determined to underestimate.
We still employ this hidden talent to this day in a few instances.
Modern day marathon runners use persistence running, first utilised in organised battle a few thousand years ago.
In modern day selection for special forces, such as the SAS, the final component is a five or six days grueling forced navigation test, whereby the candidate just traverses a mountain range from point-to-point carrying an impossibly heavy back pack. Virtually no sleep and very little food. They do this day after day after day. This skill taps into persistence running development as an evolutionary advantage. It allows the soldier to survive in harsh circumstances, such as escape and evasion.
Persistence hunting is so well studied and excepted that your objection is not really clear. Nor have you really explained how we would have jumped the hundreds of thousands year gap from living in trees to missile weapons against faster prey. Shoulder development doesn't do it. And great apes do have powerful shoulders today.
Well other primates have about the same shoulder, but humans sweating is superior. So you have it backwards. Shoulder first, sweating and less fur after
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/09/09/Ancient-human-shoulders-reveal-links-to-ape-ancestors/2581441809938/
Yes
Orangutans and fish
Orangutans suck at accuracy and fish using spit is hardly comparable, and doesn't involve creating anything.
What did I just read?
It wasn't mindless running, it was a deliberate mindful strategy.
I picture this being said by some nerd putting seeds into the ground while all the chads go out persistence hunting.
More the chad with his spear that brings home a kill hours faster because he can actually throw.
This would be pre-spear I think
Cope
How so is it overblown? It's the only tool the the belt for early humans against much faster or much larger prey. As for inefficient use of calories, it seemed to persist as an effective method for over two million years, so evolutionary pressure decided that it was effective enough.
You think early human could firstly evolve big brains for trajectory calculations or some form of heat control? What do you think requires more energy and would have come sooner?
Monkeys can throw they just lack the shoulder to be good at it.
I think learning how to throw accurately is much easier from an evolutionary perspective than heat dissipation that uses a lot of resources combined with the least calorie efficient hunting method.
First throwing, then running long distances to have a larger hunting range. Seems a far more natural sequence to me.