The practice was reported as abandoned in most places before the late 20th century

In other words, nobody has ever been reliably documented as having done this.

but the San people and other hunter-gatherer tribes are known to have used it in the 21st century

By far the most extensive study of the San peoples ever conducted was in the 1960s and 1970s by Richard Lee and other anthropologists as part of a Harvard study, and there was no mention whatsoever of "persistence hunting." There was mention of their extensive use of poisoned spears and arrows, which allowed them to track and eventually kill already-wounded animals. Something that could easily be mistaken for persistence hunting.

A 2024 study found hundreds of recorded examples of this method being practiced on all inhabited continents.

Hundreds? I would love to see this study.

That's not a fact. Who has ever been documented to have done this successfully?

Ellison had attended University of Southern California’s film school for two semesters and then left in 2005 and traveled the world.

Lol totally qualified on her own. The very definition of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

I used to eat lunch at Taco Bell in 1991. They had a fifty-cent menu so $2.50 could get you rice and beans, two hard-shell tacos and two meximelts, which was a more than adequate amount of food for lunch.

Last week I bought lunch for my mother and I at Five Guys. Two burgers, one order of fries and two small fountain drinks came to $44. The fries were so greasy that the bottom of the bag broke open in my car.

I used to counter this argument with Paul McCartney, but it turns out he's been something of a cunt his whole life as well.

Rupert Murdoch is so old that his fucking dad (not grandfather or great-grandfather) orchestrated a successful smear campaign against Australia's best general during WWI, over a century ago. Reason: the general was Jewish.

Krantz talked about walking and jogging, and referenced human performance in marathons as evidence of this idea. People who push this idea today always talk about marathon runners as well.

No, it's appropriate and legal to use your hazards when you're going at least 10-15 mph slower than the posted speed limit. The problem with school zones is that 15 mph is the posted speed limit when the sign is lit, so there's no reason to have your hazards on there unless you're going 2 mph.

Group hunting most likely, since that's something all the other great apes (gorillas, chimps and orangutans) do. There's plenty of footage of chimps surrounding their prey and catching them that way. Also we have omnivore dentition so we ate a lot of plants, and most likely scavenged quite a bit.

In more recent times (like the last million years or so) we used spears, and contemporary hunter/gatherers (like the !Kung who featured in the bit from the David Attenborough documentary that people like to link to as "proof" of the endurance hunting thesis) often used poison with their spears and arrows, which did allow them to leisurely walk after their prey. But only because their prey had been poisoned, not because humans have superior endurance.

C'mon, Iowa is least good for potatoes. Or maybe that's corn.

I generally like kids, but that's because I don't have any of my own and as a school bus driver I only have to deal with them in 15-minute doses.

The "running man" hypothesis -- the idea that our ancestors a million or two years ago were casually jogging after prey animals until they dropped from exhaustion due to our supposedly superior endurance -- is utter nonsense. It's absurd on its face and there is absolutely no evidence of any kind supporting it, yet it has become generally accepted as an incontrovertible fact about our past.

The man who initially proposed this idea in the 1960s (Grover Krantz) has become utterly forgotten and is never referenced by the idea's modern proponents, and for good reason: he was better-known as a staunch believer in the existence of Bigfoot. Also, for no reason I've ever been able to figure out, his skeleton and the skeleton of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.