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Animals tend to run away when you throw something like a rock or a big stick at them. It's possible the primary benefit of utilizing projectiles by early humans
by pdog 5y ago
Animals tend to run away when you throw something like a rock or a big stick at them. It's possible the primary benefit of utilizing projectiles by early humans, even before they could fashion weapons or throw accurately, was as a defense mechanism that increased their survival rate.
- inglor_cz 5y ago... as anyone who ever met a snarling, menacing dog in deserted Balkan mountains can confirm. Even bending down and pretending to pick up something from the ground will often work.