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Australian scientists think laziness kill the 'cave man'

Laziness is now thought to have contributed to the extinction of cavemen about 300,000 years ago.

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New Australian research has revealed one of the earliest human species, Homo erectus, died out because they were lazy.

A team at the Australian National University has found homo erectus used “least effort strategies” when it came to hunting and tool making, and wouldn’t even walk small distances.


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By Stergos Kastelloriou



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