How did human beings become the strongest creatures on earth with 'throwing power'?
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Human beings, who do not have the strength and fangs of wild animals, have expanded their prints on Earth by compensating for their weaknesses with wisdom. One of the few physical abilities that human beings can compete with and win against other animals is the ability to throw things. A biology expert explained how humans have acquired outstanding throwing power on the planet.
How humans became the best throwers on the planet
https://theconversation.com/how-humans-became-the-best-throwers-on-the-planet-131189
The speed of pitching by baseball pitchers is increasing year by year. The average speed of balls thrown by major league baseball players during a match increased by about 1.5 mph between 2008 and 2020. Far from being a baseball player, most healthy people can throw a ball faster than a chimpanzee, who has much better than humans with simple muscle strength.
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According to Michael Lombard, a professor of biology at Grand Valley State University in the United States, animals that are highly coordinated with multiple parts of the body and can throw objects fast enough to hunt for prey. Is said to be no other than humans. In the process of evolution, human beings gained such a powerful throwing power when their ancestors, who were walking on four legs, started bipedal walking. About 4 million years ago, fossils of Australopithecus , an ancestor of relatively early human beings, have confirmed traces that it was possible to grab and hold things.
However, being able to throw things is not the same as being thrown well enough to hunt. As in the modern human race, to rotate the body with the waist, it had acquired the ability to perform a precise and fast throwing in conjunction with the movement of the shoulders, chest, arms, about 200 million years ago in the Pleistocene to It is believed to be from Homo erectus , the ancestor of living modern humans.
There are two theories, 'hunting' and 'combat', as the reason why Homo erectus gained a high level of throwing power, and the theory that it is for hunting is considered to be particularly promising. However, apes like chimpanzees throw things to protect themselves, but never throw them for hunting, so throwing power is first used for combat and then gradually applied to hunting. Professor Lombard believes that this is the case.
Throwing power was an important skill
Even in modern times, there are gender differences in throwing power. According to Professor Lombard, the male skeleton is more suitable for throwing things than the female skeleton. On the other hand, recent studies have also shown that there is little difference in throwing 'accuracy' between trained male and female athletes.
Professor Lombard said, 'Baseball players Tim Lincecum and Pedro Martinez were able to throw balls faster than pitchers who were better than themselves, despite their slenderness. These athletes' bodies are human beings on earth. the most excellent of that has been as much as possible evolution to the pitcher, is a kind of role model. for throwing force of the baseball player is too improved, referred to as 'soon to be released, the distance between the mound and the batter's box' opinion was stated that there is also ' ..
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