Pandering?

Garden of Eden? Maybe not so much…
Inspired by the discovery of an apparently new species of Paranthropus, P. capensis, which was a bit more gracile than the already known species. Tho we often think of big cats or even eagles as predators of these early hominins, there’s one kind of predator that wouldn´t leave any fossil evidence behind; the python, which swallows prey whole and digests it to nothing leaving no bones for us to examine.
A 2011 study on the Agta hunter-gatherer people in Philippines found that python attacks were common enough that they could be considered a natural predator of these people (it worked both ways, as the Agta also hunted and ate pythons). Out of the Agta studied, up to 26% of men had survived predatory attacks by pythons, and often had stories about an acquaintance who had been killed or eaten, from children to adults. Men were most often attacked because they spent most time in the forest, hunting.
The Agta people are small bodied in general, and so were our early hominin relatives like Australopithecus, Paranthropus and the early Homo. There’s no doubt many of them were killed and eaten by pythons and we just never know because there were no scraps…
In some cases, the python would attack at night, when the hominins were sleeping, but in other cases they could strike from a waterhole, crocodile-style, or even from a tree, which is something that has been reported from modern day python attacks on people. Gathering fallen fruit from a tree may have been a dangerous activity.

Pandering to the Genesis story?

I didn’t know the stated background info but intriguing, if true.

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