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09/25/2007: "Human predatory instincts are intact"

For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, wild animals generally represented either a food source or a potential danger. Detecting an animal's immediate presence and then monitoring its movements was vital to the physical safety, nutrition, and well-being of stone-age families. Now scientists have identified a nonconscious attention system, which still exists in the human brain, that maintains awareness of nonhuman animals and tracks changes in their location, behavior and trajectory.

[ We may distand ourselves from nature, but nature isn't distanding from us. ]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070925090253.htm