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by MadnessASAP 768 days ago
Early humans must've been like some sorta unstoppable killing machine, never going particularly fast but never stopping either. Just relentlessly following their target until it was too exhausted to go on and just laid down to die.

*Not a anthropologist/archeologist/oldshitologist.

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> some sorta unstoppable killing machine, never going particularly fast but never stopping either.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/immortal-snail

Early humans were prey.
Once the early humans have half-decent spears, they become extremely-high-risk prey. Because a single deep puncture wound is very likely to kill even the largest predator.
I read somewhere that while homo habilis was frequently prey, that homo erectus already largely wasn't.