Gentlemen, it is with great displeasure that I must inform you that we’re doing it wrong.

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      Squatting to do all the deeds simultaneously is far more universal, cross cultural and even cross species among mammals.

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      Millions of years of eating raw food and now cooking is better? Millions of years going by foot and now traveling by things with wheels is faster?

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        Bipedal specializations are found in Australopithecus fossils from 4.2 to 3.9 million years ago and recent studies have suggested that obligate bipedal hominid species were present as early as 7 million years ago.

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          With that logic, you could also argue that all cavemen showed nazi salute, because they had arms.

          You can’t just jump from “can in principle stand upright” to “pee upright”, that’s bonkers.

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            This is true. There is no way of knowing whether early homo male stood up to urinate, or sat down on a toilet.

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            I would think it’s safe to assume that a pursuit predator like us or our ancestors would at least piss while running, no?

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                  Care to elaborate your initial statement? It doesn’t make sense, if you think just 5 seconds about it. Humans hunt in groups, and the point of endurance hunting is not to be very fast. It’s absolutely no problem, if a single member literally pisses of for a minute.

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                    I was thinking it would be more convenient if the group didn’t have to stop and wait for someone to piss. Even stopping for 5 minutes would potentially mean another half mile of ground that could be covered that day.

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          Not sure what your point is. It’s not because a species is bipedal they do their business standing up straight.