First it was the the thicc asses (for long running & creepy stalking), then came the biceps & shoulder combo.
I bet we first developed such unique throwing abilities just to fling our poop further.
(Similarly, I actually think we bred our thicc butts to twerk better.)
As a capuchin monkey myself, I am happy just throwing feces, thank you.
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This is actually legit.
Human brains are very, very good at instinctively understanding parabolic trajectories. In short, we’re evolved to be great at throwing stuff. Nothing else in the animal kingdom is as good at it as us, not even closely related primates like chimpanzees.
And as the trajectories grew, ENIAC was created
Our shoulders are unique amongst extant apes, none of the others have the ability to throw the way we do.
Due to our shoulders and our muscles, which are excellent for fine motor control, humans are the ballistic experts of the world.
Yeah I have always been amazed at the complexity of the shoulder joint. You basically have two concentric sets of muscles that do the same thing, but one is for power (the deltoid) and one is for precision (the rotator cuff). I’m oversimplifying but it is pretty unique and it’s why humans are so insanely good with their arms/hands. Looking at other apes trying to hammer a nail for instance, there’s no comparison.
But if you put them in a zoo, they will learn to throw feces.
Some years later…
GUYS! GUYS!! HOLY SHIT YOU WON’T BELIEVE!!! I threw a rock, it hit another rock and there were these sparks!!
Careful that tech is a slippery slope to world destruction
Next you know, you throw a rock and it starts to think!
Wait till they learn about the infinite food glitch
What? You bury food in the ground and more food comes out? You expect us to believe that?
I thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
You have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
Catapults are cool
multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
Maybe a few more words will make the concept clearer:
Neat.
My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
I’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
What if dogs like to play fetch because watching you throw something is mindblowing to them?
