From: Monte Davis 

>There was a time when there were animals that could hunt us down, outrun
>us, and so on. But airplanes fly higher than any bird and cars are
>faster and can go longer than any wild cat.

Point taken -- but to be persnickety, I don't think it took any
"technology" more advanced than social cooperation, language, and
pointed sticks to make us top predators -- collectively. From then on,
while any single lion, tiger or cave bear might nail any single unwary
human, the human "pack" was more than a match for all the
lions/tigers/bears in the neighborhood.

-Monte 

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