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You've smoothly shot right past solid ground (evolution doesn't design things) to a fairly wild claim (rock-throwing apes didn't experience evolutionary pressur
by samatman 4y ago
You've smoothly shot right past solid ground (evolution doesn't design things) to a fairly wild claim (rock-throwing apes didn't experience evolutionary pressure to get better at throwing rocks).
Orangutans aren't humans, so what are you saying, apes which don't throw rocks to kill their prey don't... throw rocks to kill their prey?
- netizen-936824 4y agoPerhaps my example is poor, but it shows that hands are not coupled to predation I'm specifically talking about the evolution of hands, humans are not the only organism with hands.
- ohwellhere 4y agoThis seems accurate to me. Like complex brains are evolutionarily fit because they can solve lots of disparate problems, hands are evolutionarily fit because they can do lots of disparate things. Of course, we do also then design violins for our specific dexterity.
- samatman 4y agoThe poster didn't say "hands", they said "your hands". Your human hands, which co-evolved with throwing things, we have abundant paleontological evidence of this and you may read as many papers on the subject as you would care to.
- netizen-936824 4y agoGot links to any of those papers?
- samatman 4y agoAre you vegan? Just curious.
- netizen-936824 4y agoNo, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the topic at hand Also unsure how that's an appropriate response to a request for citations?