April
20
/ 2022
For at least 200,000 years Homo sapiens were hunter-gatherer-fishers and at the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago, they flipped from being the number one prey food on the planet to being the apex predator. One would expect that having dominated every animal on the planet, the global overlords would have evolved from their hyper-violent past, but this is not the case. Rather than working together as hunting teams trying to fell huge megafauna, since the dawn of ‘civilization’ about 3,000 years ago, history is replete with endless records of highly-trained factions of human hunter-killers. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"95762","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"366","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Thuggees strangling a traveler on a highway in India in the early 19th century. ( Public Domain ) Assassins, and
