Well they are both, but hunter seems more fitting for humans. We can't just be naturally predators. We need tools.
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That doesn't matter. We're built from the ground up to be predators (that just so happen to be able to eat plants and stuff, kinda like a bear). Our efficient bipedal gait, our massive amount of sweat glands, our hairless bodies: all designed to make us the perfect pursuit predator. Who needs tools when you can just run your prey into the ground and make them die of exhaustion.
Deer, wildebeest, boar (if they don't gore you first), bison, cattle, horses, camels. Any of these animals can outrun you but they can't outlast you. If a horse were to run for 25 miles they'd drop dead. Us? We do that for fun. There's a reason we domesticated wolves as they're almost as good at pursuit predation as us.
Doubtful. Aninals are pretty even. If a horse can be faster than a human and will cat us before he gets tired, he will. The majority of humas can not just run over 25 miles without training.
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Granted human ancestors are said to have also partially spent some of their history on the shorelines providing a counterpoint as to why we're mostly hairless (as well as being able to hold our breaths for relatively long periods of time with 19 minutes being the world record and 2 being the average, our slightly webbed hands and feet, and having a mammalian diving reflex like dolphins and other aquatic animals) which is known as the Aquatic Ape Theory. But that's beside the point.
Maybe ancestors. But just saying not anymore the way humas have changed their lifestyle, it is not the norm anymore. And after we kill them of exhaustion, we still need tools and fire to eat them. Just saying I doubt see humans as straight predators as other animals. Specially now after getting used to the modern lifestyle.
Well yeah, we're certainly not as fit as we were before the agricultural revolution. Still though, if we lost all our technology tomorrow, those of us who survived more than a few months would still be apex predators. The fact that we use tools shows a degree of cognitive sophistication that actually supports our claim to the top of the food chain, not negates it.
Again... average human. And we would still need how to cut it probably and fire. Just saying that's why I find hunter more quiere as it is not as staging forward as an animal would do it.
You're thinking of the mass hysteria at that convent in.. France, I think it was. The witch hunts spanned continents, lasted hundreds of years, and involved some of the best scientific and judicial minds of their ages - there was nothing accidental about them.
I think that's a theory though that it made since people see stuff. Others it was just SOBs wanting to ged rid of some women they didn't like and you really didn't need any proof why would you say they are witches, just your word.
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