I like your line “[a]nd none of this pansy using a tool to extract the fat nonsense.” It gives hyenas their due. Lions get may be royalty but hyenas are monsters. A lion will kill you and then eat you. A hyena does it the other way around. Often they don’t even even bother to finish the job.
Yes, even in the first few chapters of Sapiens he got evolution wrong enough I couldn’t take anything he said seriously.
I made some really cautious criticism here and more useful but more speculative criticism here.
I like your line “[a]nd none of this pansy using a tool to extract the fat nonsense.” It gives hyenas their due. Lions get may be royalty but hyenas are monsters. A lion will kill you and then eat you. A hyena does it the other way around. Often they don’t even even bother to finish the job.