Stone Age Softies! ; Early Man a Savage Hunter? He Was a Wimp More Likely to End Up As a Sabre-Toothed Tiger's Dinner, Say Scientists

Daily MailFebruary 20, 2006

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IT'S perhaps not surprising that early man is often thought of as a ferocious hunter.

In a world populated by giant sabre-toothed cats, hyenas the size of bears and enormous crocodiles, it is difficult to imagine any other way our ancestors could have survived.

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Stone Age Softies! ; Early Man a Savage Hunter? He Was a Wimp More Likely to End Up As a Sabre-Toothed Tiger's Dinner, Say Scientists

But now researchers believe a group of humans who lived two million years ago were not hunters at all.

Rather they were meek and mild, and were themselves hunted just as antelope on the savannahs of Africa are today.

They warded off pr...

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