Bipedal specializations are found in Australopithecus fossils from 4.2 to 3.9 million years ago and recent studies have suggested that obligate bipedal hominid species were present as early as 7 million years ago.
Care to elaborate your initial statement? It doesn’t make sense, if you think just 5 seconds about it. Humans hunt in groups, and the point of endurance hunting is not to be very fast. It’s absolutely no problem, if a single member literally pisses of for a minute.
I was thinking it would be more convenient if the group didn’t have to stop and wait for someone to piss. Even stopping for 5 minutes would potentially mean another half mile of ground that could be covered that day.
If you’re taking 5 minutes to piss, you won’t make any ground anyway.
If a group hunts, one guy can stop for a minute and just catch up with the rest.
Also, that mode of hunting doesn’t involve covering ground in the sense of moving somewhere, the goal is to exhaust the prey, that could be done within a circle of 1km. Or 20km.
Humans haven’t been standing to pee for millions of years.
Bipedal specializations are found in Australopithecus fossils from 4.2 to 3.9 million years ago and recent studies have suggested that obligate bipedal hominid species were present as early as 7 million years ago.
With that logic, you could also argue that all cavemen showed nazi salute, because they had arms.
You can’t just jump from “can in principle stand upright” to “pee upright”, that’s bonkers.
This is true. There is no way of knowing whether early homo male stood up to urinate, or sat down on a toilet.
I would think it’s safe to assume that a pursuit predator like us or our ancestors would at least piss while running, no?
No.
Care to elaborate?
Care to elaborate your initial statement? It doesn’t make sense, if you think just 5 seconds about it. Humans hunt in groups, and the point of endurance hunting is not to be very fast. It’s absolutely no problem, if a single member literally pisses of for a minute.
I was thinking it would be more convenient if the group didn’t have to stop and wait for someone to piss. Even stopping for 5 minutes would potentially mean another half mile of ground that could be covered that day.
If you’re taking 5 minutes to piss, you won’t make any ground anyway.
If a group hunts, one guy can stop for a minute and just catch up with the rest.
Also, that mode of hunting doesn’t involve covering ground in the sense of moving somewhere, the goal is to exhaust the prey, that could be done within a circle of 1km. Or 20km.
Not sure what your point is. It’s not because a species is bipedal they do their business standing up straight.