Atelo wrote:First you disagree, then you point out that we use our brains to catch our prey and to survive, totally backing up exactly what I've been saying. Using a stick to beat a bear to death is using a "tool", which is something attributed to higher intelligence.
That is the reason we survived. It was by no means through physical strength or even endurance. Take away the spear or barb as you say, and you will never catch or kill said deer. Intelligence was required to use tools to do so.
I would also mention that "Survival of the fittest" is actually a common fallacy. Strength is not what determines survival or natural selection, only the species ability to procreate and protect those young. Humans are good at procreating (mating season is year-round) and we protected our young in communities with weapons (tools). Tools that required intelligence to figure out how to use or invent and refine.
Read the article. Tools only facilitated an easier catch, not the catch in and of itself. A person, on a hot day, can outrun (endurance wise) a horse in a marathon.