The endurance-running hypothesis proposes that the human ability to run long distances in the midday heat evolved to enable early hominins to engage in persistence hunting.

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Persistence hunting is a predatory technique in which hunters chase an animal above its trot-to-gallop transition speed during the hottest part of the day. Because many prey animals cannot pant while galloping, the sustained chase causes the prey to overheat and collapse.

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