Dark moment from BBC

From the BBC: “Understanding when we first developed the capabilities to kill at distance is therefore a dark, but important moment in our story."

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/neanderthal-hunting-0011403

That is, it was a dark day when our ancestral humans learned they could kill animals farther than an arm's length away. A guess: If our ancestors had not learned to kill food "at distance," we might not be here.