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Agreed; this sounded very post-hoc to me. The point about golf throwing back to projectile-hunting seems off to me, too. If anything, I would think we're wired
by whimsy 16y ago
Agreed; this sounded very post-hoc to me. The point about golf throwing back to projectile-hunting seems off to me, too. If anything, I would think we're wired for exhaustion-hunting... that is, running after prey until they collapse from exhaustion. That seems to be what we're good at, right?
- goodside 16y agoRegardless of their relevance to golfing, hunter-gatherers do use spears and projectile rocks extensively for hunting. They're ubiquitous among modern hunter-gatherers, and archaeologists have uncovered wooden spears from over 400K years ago. For scale, agriculture didn't become important until 10K years ago. This is much more than enough time for humans to develop complex functional adaptations specifically related to projectile weapons.