Beefbisquit
Well-Known Member
Well put, MP. You caught me in a fallacy...Man is one of the best endurance runners in the animal kingdom. Our ability to perspire from modified hair follicles and running upright using only strong lower body muscles while not wasting energy using less efficient arm muscles while freeing them up for using weapons and other tasks is what gives us the predatory edge.
It's disingenuous to criticize and argue against natural selection just because you can't figure out why something evolved (or didn't). Argument from ignorance is all that amounts to.
Humans do make some what good hunters, but it's because we forage, scavenge, hunt, and grow our own food that we prosper.
There are far better hunters in the animal kingdom, there are far better examples of almost everything in the animal kingdom, save intelligence and adaptability.
For hunting, cougars and leopards specifically come to mind, they have some of the highest success rates. Where they fail is their comparative intelligence an ability to adapt to new conditions. That's where humans excel, not because we're the strongest, fastest, have the most endurance, or any other number of traits. We are smart, and we adapt. That's natural selection baby, the best at adaptation wins!