According to the endurance running hypothesis, long-distance running as in persistence hunting, a method still practiced by some hunter-gatherer groups in modern times, was likely the driving evolutionary force leading to the evolution of certain human characteristics. This hypothesis does not necessarily contradict the scavenging hypothesis: both subsistence strategies could have been in use – sequentially, alternating or even simultaneously. COUNT 5
QSN1 What is long-distance running as a food hunting-gathering technique? ANS1 persistence hunting QSN2 What theory says that long-distance running drove the evolution of some human traits? ANS2 endurance running hypothesis QSN3 Who still practices persistence hunting? ANS3 some hunter-gatherer groups QSN4 Besides the endurance running hypothesis, what other theory of food collection is there? ANS4 scavenging hypothesis QSN5 What food gathering techniques could have been used by early man at the same time? ANS5 both subsistence strategies