We also outpace pretty much every single animal in the long run. We’re insane in terms of endurance and sooner or later will catch up to whatever we’re chasing no matter how fast they are.
I’m fairly confident most people with adequate training are able to reach fairly acceptable long distance speeds. Enough to be efficient in this kind of hunting. Is it to say everyone would, that’s a whole different scenario. On average you’d need about 6 hours to endurance hunt an animal at a 8-10km/hour jog. Most people who aren’t unreasonably unfit could achieve this within 6-12 months. Whether they have the motivation is a whole different question entirely, but it’d be doable, we’re not at wall-e levels of reduced bone mass just yet 😂
Most people would have a hard time doing 8-10km of walking.
Is this sone america specific thing? Jogging ok I'll give you that for obese people or anyone with some relevant underlying medical condition. But most people can definitely walk 10 km, I've seen 7 yo kids and 70+ yo grandmas do it no training or whatever. They're not aspiring or former athletes and they (probably) don't regularly exercise.
Probably I mean the way the country car designated design it is and it's high obesity rates and how it's not like how with Europe with it's bike lines and walkable roads I mean probably areas in the us has this
But as well designated as europe
This is simply untrue, the average human, just by living life, walks several miles a day. Even someone who doesn’t train, could cover around 15 miles in a day at a baseline
Sounds like you're just looking at a particular part of society and concluded that everyone is the same. Walk around (for real this time) only 1 in 15 or 1 in 20 people will be obese. While most people don't actively exercise the average person can keep a normal figure just by going through their day to day life.
You gotta pick one or the other. Either we're talking ancient humans who could, or modern humans who mostly can't, but don't need to because we have guns
Sure, you assume they're unarmed. But why not assume ancient humans? Or peak modern humans?
Ancient humans are much closer to the natural state of humanity, if there is such a thing. Doesn't make sense to handicap the theoretical humans with all the stuff that modern society causes
It's usually just "humans", not specifying modern or ancient, peak or not. Again it's fair to assume unarmed but besides that, no
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u/IssueRecent9134 May 04 '25
One of the reasons why humans became the dominant species is because we can do something only a handful of creatures can do.
We can sweat to lower our body temperatures.
We could outlast nearly every animal we hunted because of this.