A Contrived Notion
- From: "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Nov 2006 22:31:01 -0800
. . . Throwing behaviour gave rise to
bipedalism to enhance and increase throwing and later yet bigger brains
and the need of language to make throwing better.
Think about what you're saying. You are saying, that stone
throwing is some kind of magic accelerant of intellect. Your reasoning
is contrived. Supposedly the realization of stonethrowing proficiency
in
our earliest chimpanzee-like ancestor did not require much in the way
of intellect. But then you tell us exactly the opposite. You tell us
that stonethrowing required intellect and therefore the larger brain
evolved to accomodate this need. Which is it? Did it require
intellect or did it not? And if it did then how do you explain our
earliest chimpanzee-like ancestors, supposedly, achieve throwing
proficiency? If it didn't then why did it, supposedly, result in the
expansion of human intellect?
Even more plainly speculative is the unstated supposition that the type
of intellect associated with throwing would be (or is) also useful for
language.
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