The Evolution of Hunting Strategies – Were We Born to Run?

Please note:  This is a discussion about how ancient humans hunted and killed animals.  If you find these ideas disturbing, it is probably a good idea to skip this post.   

Last week I exchanged several comments with my friend Sean at Prague Stepchild about his post The Myth of Persistence Hunting.  Persistence hunting is a strategy where an animal is chased (hunted) until it collapses from heat exhaustion.  Let’s just say that there is a good bit of debate about the relative importance of persistence hunting as a survival strategy for our earliest human ancestors (2.5 million years ago until the invention of stone weapons).

Things I have Been Reading

In preparing posts for my blog, I spend a good amount of time reading and researching around the internet.  Rather than write about everything I read, I plan to occasionally provide links to posts that catch my eye.  Below are a few from the past week that you may find interesting:

1. I highly recommend Dr. Kurt Harris’s blog covering all aspects of paleo nutrition.  Here is an overview post for Getting Started. 
2. Dan Matesz at Primal Wisdom has a great post about Primal Diet on a Shoestring: a Nutritionally Complete, Inexpensive, Low Carbohydrate Meal Plan.
3. Mark Sisson, author of The Primal BluePrint, has a post about how more-and-more people are using mail-order blood tests.  Take a look at Doctors as Middlemen?
4. For those of you that want to get a better understanding of the science of obesity, check out How Does a Cell Avoid Obesity? at Perfect Health Diet.
5. Finally, I found Ned Kock’s post on Compensatory Adaptationto be very enlightening.