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<p>Stone-tipped spears only appeared about a half a million years ago. "That means that for about 1.5 million years, when people hunted, they basically had nothing more lethal to throw than a pointed wooden stick . . . . If you want to kill something with that, you have to be able to throw that pretty hard, and you have to be accurate. Imagine how important it must have been to our ancestors to throw hard and fast."</p> | <p>Stone-tipped spears only appeared about a half a million years ago. "That means that for about 1.5 million years, when people hunted, they basically had nothing more lethal to throw than a pointed wooden stick . . . . If you want to kill something with that, you have to be able to throw that pretty hard, and you have to be accurate. Imagine how important it must have been to our ancestors to throw hard and fast."</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>Peter | |Sources=<p>Peter Reuell, "Right Down the Middle, Explained," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Harvard Gazette</span>, June 27, 2013.</p> | ||
<p>See <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/right-down-the-middle-explained/">http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/right-down-the-middle-explained/</a> (includes video of | <p>See <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/right-down-the-middle-explained/">http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/right-down-the-middle-explained/</a> (includes video of human throwing motion)</p> | ||
|Comment=<p>The article asserts, without supporting detail, that straight-arm (cricket-style) throwing is less effective.</p> | |Comment=<p>The article asserts, without supporting detail, that straight-arm (cricket-style) throwing is less effective.</p> | ||
|Query=<p>Do British researchers agree that cricket-style bowling would be less effective as a hunting technique?</p> | |Query=<p>Do British researchers agree that cricket-style bowling would be less effective as a hunting technique?</p> | ||
|Submitted by=Alexa McCray | |||
|Submission Note=email sent to Protoball on her birthday | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Text | "A suite of physical changes -- such as the lowering and widening of the shoulders, and expansion of the waist, and a twisting of the humerus -- make humans especially good at throwing . . . it wasn't until the appearance of Homo erectus ,about 2 million years ago" that this combination of alterations came together. Chimpanzees can only throw like a dartboard-contestant or a straight-arm cricket bowler. Stone-tipped spears only appeared about a half a million years ago. "That means that for about 1.5 million years, when people hunted, they basically had nothing more lethal to throw than a pointed wooden stick . . . . If you want to kill something with that, you have to be able to throw that pretty hard, and you have to be accurate. Imagine how important it must have been to our ancestors to throw hard and fast."
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Sources | Peter Reuell, "Right Down the Middle, Explained," Harvard Gazette, June 27, 2013. See http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/right-down-the-middle-explained/ (includes video of human throwing motion) |
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Comment | The article asserts, without supporting detail, that straight-arm (cricket-style) throwing is less effective. Edit with form to add a comment |
Query | Do British researchers agree that cricket-style bowling would be less effective as a hunting technique? Edit with form to add a query |
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Submitted by | Alexa McCray |
Submission Note | email sent to Protoball on her birthday |
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