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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fun fact: the guy who first proposed this “running man” hypothesis about persistence hunting in the late 1960s (Grover Krantz) was better known as a staunch advocate for the existence of Bigfoot. Personally, I can’t believe that anybody could still believe in Bigfoot - it’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.
For some weird reason, Krantz’s skeleton and that of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The father of modern day physics changed course and started studying alchemy, chronology, biblical interpretation, losing himself to mysticism. He’d probably research big foot if he was alive as well. That doesn’t mean I’m going to dismiss his real magnum opus
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Contrary to modern-day physics, the “persistence hunting” thing is very much not a scientific consensus. It’s more of a fringe idea supported by hardly any science that somehow made it into popular science.
There’s about as much credible evidence to that theory as there is to the theory that eating chocolate helps with loosing weight.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wikipedia politely labels persistence hunting as “conjecture”. It’s interesting that pretty much everything important from our ancestral past (e.g. fire-making, flint-napping tools, spears, skins and furs etc.) can be and regularly is reproduced by modern people. But somehow you never see modern people jogging down deer and killing them - even with the benefits of modern footwear, portable water containers, and GPS trackers.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thank you chicken lady. That makes much more sense.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
“losing”
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
who’s that? Leibnitz? not Newton?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, they’re talking about Newton, who did go kinda batshit as an older man.