June 22, 2011

Top Ten Animals Which Hunted Our Ancestors

Robb Dunn, Smithsonian


AP Photo

If you live in a developed country, odds are you are going to die of a heart attack, stroke, cancer or an accident. But it was not always this way. For most of our evolutionary history as primates, one of the most common causes of death, perhaps the most common cause, was, well, being eaten.

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