article_snippet: Early human ancestors may have evolved to throw spears allowing Early human ancestors to hunt around two million years ago, a new study has suggested.
article_snippet: While direct evidence of early throwing behavior remains elusive, evidence for the intensification of hominin carnivory and hunting behavior dating back two million years is increasing. '
article_snippet: We propose that this increased carnivory was facilitated by a flexible, situation-dependent hunting and scavenging strategy that included high-speed throwing.'
article_snippet: the latest research suggests that the ability to throw spears and other objects for hunting evolved long before our own species, Homo sapiens, appeared on the planet.
article_snippet: This was a crucial step towards evolving how to throw and led our ancestors to be able to hunt large prey.
article_snippet: We see hunting behaviour to emerge around that time.
article_snippet: We think that throwing was important early on in terms of hunting behavoiur to allow We to kill big game and get more calories in our ancestors diet.'