Re: Polymorphism in genomics Re: subtract orangutan genome from chimpanzee genome to gain Throwing genes

From: Ray Audette (rso456_at_airmail.net)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: 26 Jul 2004 20:32:50 -0700

Archimedes Plutonium <a_plutonium@iw.net> wrote in message
> I wonder if the difference between throwing underarm by chimps and throwing
> overarm by humans is due to some polymorph. And whether the underarm by chimps
> and the non throwing of orangutans is due to a polymorphism.
>
But of course even chimps throw like girls. You'll never see one in a
baseball game for this reason.

The feature that most seperates humans from apes is our lopsided
brains. A feature that is most pronounced in male specimins (
explaining the failure of women's Major League Baseball). Hominid
skulls are longitudinaly asymetrical even in the most primitive types
thus allowing one to differenciate between ape and hominid skull
remains. This results in extreme eye dominance giving hominids a
unique evolutionary advantage - the ability to aim a thrown object,
allowing a man with a rock or sharp stick to kill any animal on earth
( something a tiger cannot do). The major advantage of bipedialism is
that it frees our hands to carry such projectiles and allows humans to
run further than any animal except wolves ( the only others species
capable of runing a 26 mile marathon). Our lack of fur and unique
sweat glands provide the cooling system necessary to accomplish such a
feat. In warm climates, humans can outrun even dogs because of this
unique cooling system ( the reason the Iditerod must be run in Alaska
in winter).

Corballis, Michael L.,
The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1991.
[More about how the difference in left and right brain size affected
the evolution of human behavior.]

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
by Deborah Tannen, Harper Collins, NY, 1990
[ explains more about how the differences in male and female brains
affects communication patterns]

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
www.NeanderThin.com

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