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Do I understand correctly; that humans ate first the bigger animals to extinction and moved to next smaller ? Isn't this counterintuitive? Bigger animals need better traps and (killing) tools while smaller ones can be catched by hand and can be choked ?

If I had to choose between a moose and a rabbit to hunt, I would go for the cute little bunny.

But don't take my choice as guidance, I grew up and lived in city.

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A moose would feed your tribe a lot longer than a rabbit. Once you have established a solid harvesting process, it is much more efficient to sustain a population from larger animals.

Tribes, harvesting aren't those sound more like possible with modern social structures? I expect them to form in the latter part of the 1.5 million years period. In the graph from the tweet shows delicacy(!) was elephant around 1 million years ago.

Monkeys can be said to live in "tribes", and "harvesting" was just my polite euphemism for "bloody slaughter".

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