https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Going strong for over 30,000 years.

Dogs and cats are smart. They joined our side.

Dogs and cats are half the fucking problem.

And my axe!

But that would be a stabby stick. A pointy stick is to point at stuff.

Can’t overlook banging rocks together to get a sharper rock. Big tech, invest now!

It is funny how until the invention of fire ants firearms, almost always the best weapon was a pointy stick.

Then firearms happen and we learned to throw the stick very quickly.

We basically collected the unstoppable exodia:

• ranged damage
• team ups
• infinite stamina

you: throws pinecone at mach 30

birb: is-is that a.... squints

birb: GAH! FUCK!!!

There are lots of animals that have cooperative social groups and they don't rule the planet.

Very few can throw weapons.

Communication, abstract planning, and being able to walk 100km without stopping is what really won it for us.

Yeah, there were studies done that found a human can't reliably throw a rock hard enough to kill even a rabbit from pretty close range. Rocks are blunt and usually only stun the target.

It was the fact that a dozen people all throwing rocks is an unassailable obstacle to any predator or prey. You can corner animals or ward them away. And if you think about it that's always been roughly how human wars have gone: masses of spears, slings, arrows, bolts, bullets, shells, missiles, etc. Our one big trick is a DDoS of violence.

In addition to the ability to jog, run and walk during the hottest part of the day ... early humans could avoid most predators who were less capable of being active in the heat. The benefits of being a hairless sweaty upright ape.

Trivia time: Chimpanzees are the best primates after man at throwing.

At best they can throw things at the level of semi-athletic child.

Humans have unique rotating shoulder joint that just gives us a huge edge over any other species, when it comes to throwing things.

It’s a Neanderthal according to reverse image searches for the original illustration. There were light skinned Neanderthals in Europe, so it’s not an inaccurate illustration, just an inaccurate caption

Also cuts his hair and beard