Re: fishing in the savanna


Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge:
Skeletal Remains Tell the Story

Journal of Human Evolution 56
Throwing in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic:
inferences from an analysis of humeral retroversion,
Jill Rhodes & Steven Churchill 2009

A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man
suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human
evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and Steven Churchill, evolutionary
anthropologists published their findings in the January 2009 edition of the
Journal of Human Evolution. The paper entitled, "Throwing in the Middle and
Upper Paleolithic: inferences from an analysis of humeral retroversion,"
provides some clues to the extinction of Neanderthal.
Projectile weaponry was an important component of early man's survival
toolkit. Traces of projectile weaponry have been found in Africa dating back
some 80,000 years.

scientific comment of our little savanna fool:
If this pile of absolute crap is an advantage, I'll kiss their ass.

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