On the sweltering plains of humanity’s early days,pre-industrial tribesmen acquired wealthy animal protein for their diets via persistence hunting. Working carefully in groups—and taking advantage of the stamina, sweat-cooling, and water-carrying advantages humans have over terrestrial ungulates—they would divide their faster,stronger prey from its group, and then pursue it at a sustainable running pace over mighty distances, and until at long last it collapsed from total exhaustion and could be dispatched at close range with no resistance.
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