errors of Lieberman & Bramble Re: Stonethrowing theory

From: Archimedes Plutonium (a_plutonium_at_iw.net)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:07:09 -0600

Archimedes Plutonium wrote:

> --- quoting Reuters in full because I need to debate line for line ---
> Humans Were Born to Run, Scientists Say
>
> Wed Nov 17, 4:05 PM ET
>
>
>

(snip)

>
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> The conventional theory is that running was
> a by-product of bipedalism, or the ability to
> walk upright on two legs, that evolved in
> ape-like human ancestors called Australopithecus
> at least 4.5 million years ago.
>
> But Lieberman and Bramble argue that it took
> a few million more years for the running
> physique to evolve, so the ability to walk
> cannot explain the transition.
>
> "There were 2.5 million to 3 million years
> of bipedal walking without ever looking like a
> human, so is walking going to be what
> suddenly transforms the hominid body?" said
> Bramble.
>
> "We're saying 'no, walking won't do that,
> but running will."'
>

Lieberman and Bramble are grossly wrong when they make this leap of faith
for running. They failed logic by ignoring another behaviour that is
greater and more powerful than either walking or running. The behaviour of
Stonethrowing.

Running will not fill the gap of 2 million years of evolving. And it is
this numerical number gap that ties and relates to bone and muscle
morphology.

Every bone and muscle change that Lieberman and Bramble mention that
facilitates Running also facilitates Throwing.

Throwing created walking and later enhanced walking so much that it created
running.

So the gap of 2 to 3 million years that Lieberman and Bramble associate
that gap for Running is mostly a gap for Throwing.

If we look at every bone complex and muscle complex that Lieberman and
Bramble tie to Running:
(1) longer legs
(2) shorter forearm
(3) increased buttock
(4) vertibral disks

And then factor in Throwing we begin to see that shorter forearms increase
Throwing proficiency by perhaps 90% whereas shorter forearms increase
Running by a mere 20%. Increased buttock increased Throwing by 75% whereas
it increased Running by a mere 10%.

What Lieberman and Bramble fail to understand why there is a 2 to 3 million
year gap between Walking and then Running is that the majority of bone and
muscle re-configuration from living in trees to Throwing rocks and stones
on the ground and living on the ground is that those bones and muscles were
re-configured to increase Throwing more than changing for Running.

When you ignore Throwing and focus only on walking and running then you can
make a big blooper of a mistake by saying there is a time gap of 2 to 3
million years.

But when you focus on Throwing then there is no time gap from walking to
running because Throwing created the walking and after much muscle and bone
evolutionary change to an even more skilled Thrower that those changes
compliment the ability to turn from walking to running.

What Bramble and Lieberman failed to list is the changes of bone for
Throwing:
(1) Rotator Cuff
(2) opposable thumb
(3) finger hand bones to lift, carry and throw rocks
(4) backbones to act is lever and fulcrum in throwing
(5) legbones to act as lever and fulcrum
(6) removal of sight impediments such as hair, browridges
(7) stereoscopic vision because rock throwing targets

When you include Throwing then it is easy to see that walking becomes a
subset and that walking was created by Throwing, so that Throwing came
first then came walking and as you increase the ability to throw with skill
that running enhanced that throwing. So Throwing is the driving force and
throwing is the sole behaviour that transformed apelike creatures to
produce humanity.

Archimedes Plutonium
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