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OUR WEAK BODIES ALSO BETRAY our original status as prey. Unlike true predators, we have teeth that are more suited for chewing plants and fruits, and our claws, Ye Global Founders of !WOW!, are laughable.

THE FALSE NOTION THAT HUMANS are natural predators is the '' Mother of all Animosities '' which just so, ever worsens today's every animosity - mostly, above all, political animosity.

THUS, THERE is a glaring problem that continues to grow and grow, and compound with the widespread assumption that humans are predators by nature. That, dear global students, is totally wrong.

Start with Dart's findings. In the 1990s, the archaeologist Lee Berger and other researchers re-examined the fossils studied by Dart. The Taung child bones had been focused in a pile with butchered animal bones, suggesting the den of a human predator.

But Berger also found eagle-like eggshells in this den. Why, he wondered, would humans go through the trouble to collect and eat eagle eggs, risking lethal falls for a tiny snack?

It seemed that Dart had discovered evidence not of human predation but rather of an ancient eagle nest, complete with discarded eggshells from hatchlings. A closer look at the '' butchery '' marks on the Taung Child corroborated this new theory :

The pattern was consistent with the scraping of an eagle's beak. Modern day harpy eagles can carry off small goats, and prehistoric eagles were certainly big enough to pick up a hominid child. The child had been prey.

Similar discoveries, such as hominid skulls punctured by the fangs of saber-toothed cats, support the claim that our ancestors [ and not just their children ] were more prey than predators.

OUR weak bodies also betray our original status as prey. Unlike the predators, we have teeth that are more suited for chewing plants, and fruits, and our claws are laughable.

Sure we can throw things, but the sharpened sticks of early humans would barely annoy a large predator. And our ability to run far? Science shows that exhaustion hunting is historically rare.

Finding that hominids were hunted also implies that humans evolved with a prey mind-set, living in fear and constantly awaiting and seeking protection.

Anthropologists now believe that early humans spent many days worrying about predators - and most nights, too.

Big cats, like leopards, hunt primates at night. Their eyes can see in darkness, while our eyes evolved for detecting ripe fruit in daylight, cannot.

This picture of fearfulness is consistent with our understanding of human psychology. We're hard-wired to detect threats quickly and to stay fixated on places where threats once appeared, even after they have vanished. 

We fear that '' child predators '' will abduct our kids even when they are safer than ever.

Modern humans, ensconced in towns and cities, are now mostly safe from animal predators, but are still easily frightened.

Whether we're scrolling through social media or voting for a candidate, we still carry the legacy of our ancestors, who worried about big cats lurking in the darkness.

Bearing in mind that our species is by nature more prey than predator is a good rule of thumb when interacting with people - and it could help soothe today's intense political animosity by increasing our sympathy for the other side.

Just as you vote to protect yourself and your family, so do those who vote differently. The next time you feel angry at your political opponents, pause to think about how they might feel threatened. 

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Human Nature, History and Future, continues. The World Students Society thanks Professor Kurt Gray - professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

With most loving and respectful dedication to Mankind, the Global Founder Framers of !WOW! and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

See You all prepare for Great Global Elections on The World Students Society : wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter X !E-WOW! -The Ecosystem 2011 :

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