man as big bad hunter, or hunted?
The traditional view is that man has been a great hunter, and in fact through much of recent history humans have been. Jared Diamond talks about this in his book “Guns Germs and Steel”, that each time man came in contact with new species of large game, we hunted them to extinction. He also adds that in many cases those large animals had never seen humans before, and had no fear, thus men could walk right up to them, and go to town.
Now a different view is emerging, one of man the hunted.