The human brain and body is incredibly good at doing the instant, unconscious trigonometry and also the mechanics of throwing. The way a lion has his weapons (claws and teeth) we have the skills and body structure necessary to use external weapons like rocks and spears.
Interesting, we also have very good aim, and one of the best runners, we can run for a long time without getting tired, we have the best endurance. I've heard, there was a test where participants were blindfolded, and they were told to catch somebody holding a beeping football, most of them used constant angle trajectory to catch the person, and they succeeded even when blindfolded.
It is pretty insane that you can pick up an item you've never held before and just throw it almost exactly where you want it with little to no actual thought about it. I mean I'm certainly not doing like mass and angle and wind resistance and calculating gravity when I throw something. Almost seems like its deeply instinctual.
If you've ever been s kid (I have a feeling you have) or have kids you know there is something IRRESISTIBLE about picking rocks up and throwing them. I mean you cannot take a kid aged 3-10 for a walk without them picking up at least one rock and throwing it.
Was recently a chaperone for a kindergarten field trip, and I'm pretty sure every single kid threw rocks into this pond that we passed, with a couple boys refusing to stop and holding up the whole class for like 10 minutes lol
Imagine the first time a lion ran up on s tribe if peope only to start immediately eating 20-30 rocks to the face at about 60-100 mph. Lol humans rock.
Throwing combined with endurance hunting makes a lot of sense to me we did trade galloping for bipedal movement which makes us so incredibly slow we have to rely on wit or climbing to escape predators. No chance of outrunning but with that trade off is very efficient movement Chase animals to exhaustion and pelt it with stones
It actually looks like quadrupedal locomotion evolved separately in the other great apes, rather than being ancestral. Stefan Milo has a good video on the subject, with more detail, but overall, it looks like the ancestral hominids coming down from the trees were bipedal, and that moving on four limbs, knuckle walking, came later in chimpanzees and gorillas.
It is the spine turning, the wind up, this twists the bands of fascia / connective tissue allowing for a release of Kinetic energy. The spiraling action generates much more torque. The spiraling action becomes available only after standing, hence why toddlers struggle to throw until they learn to stand and walk with ease. Surely we would have been doing this a great amount in games in early history. That's how we would learn to generate torque and accuracy. Games like catch allow for quick feedback loops to be created that also can scale - I stand closer or further away, we change targets, we aim for max vertical, etc
Simplified Version (kinda): The reason why we are able to throw things so well is because of our body structure and since throwing anything behind with any real force requires massive amounts of balance our body structures are the most well suited to throw things. apes and other primates can throw things aswell but they kinda just lob things without any force, Now we are able to throw things so well because of our body stucture right?, our body structure achieved this by having shorter arms and longer legs. Okay thats it bye have a great day
I’m a knife and axe throwing. Thanks for this great video. There is something so primitive and satisfying when throwing knives axes and atlatl darts that it is unlike any other activity. 🔪👍🏼🎯
Professors! With all the eyes fixated it's easy to get too focused and lose sight of common sense. Shaped and sharpened tools are much less common to the ancestral man than a good well weighed river rock!
And perhaps not even for hunting. I well aimed rock lobed at an oncoming predator might be more likely. We don't have big teeth or horns or claws but we humans can bite from a distance.
Throwing sticks are great and easy to make/find. Wrist width, forearm length sticks are surprisingly accurate and powerful, I threw one at a tree and the sound it made on impact was a resounding “CRACK” that echoed a bit, from a throw that wasn’t even full strength, and it hit right where I was looking without practice.
Pointy stick wins again. Seriously swords get all the credit but untill the invention if the cross bow pointy stick was where it was at, preferably a long pointy stick
Imagine, being a lion, killing a low shouldered chimpanzee, when all of a sudden you're rained at by shitton of river stones by the whole low shouldered chimpanzee clan that have long pinty stick
The human brain and body is incredibly good at doing the instant, unconscious trigonometry and also the mechanics of throwing. The way a lion has his weapons (claws and teeth) we have the skills and body structure necessary to use external weapons like rocks and spears.
Interesting, we also have very good aim, and one of the best runners, we can run for a long time without getting tired, we have the best endurance. I've heard, there was a test where participants were blindfolded, and they were told to catch somebody holding a beeping football, most of them used constant angle trajectory to catch the person, and they succeeded even when blindfolded.
It is pretty insane that you can pick up an item you've never held before and just throw it almost exactly where you want it with little to no actual thought about it. I mean I'm certainly not doing like mass and angle and wind resistance and calculating gravity when I throw something. Almost seems like its deeply instinctual.
If you've ever been s kid (I have a feeling you have) or have kids you know there is something IRRESISTIBLE about picking rocks up and throwing them. I mean you cannot take a kid aged 3-10 for a walk without them picking up at least one rock and throwing it.
Was recently a chaperone for a kindergarten field trip, and I'm pretty sure every single kid threw rocks into this pond that we passed, with a couple boys refusing to stop and holding up the whole class for like 10 minutes lol
Now we throw tiny, pointed metal balls faster than the speed of sound
No we dont. We shoot.
And its not even its final form 🔥
And this is to go even further beyondd!
@@miranda9691 that has nothing to do with evolution
@@heyborttheeditor1608doesn't it? Isn't cooperation our single greatest feature?
Imagine the first time a lion ran up on s tribe if peope only to start immediately eating 20-30 rocks to the face at about 60-100 mph. Lol humans rock.
So basicly we are range atk base build ,, then if you want to attack other animal on pvp dont go close melee :v
I recommend you to watch TierZoo
@INFO GOD It appeared in the recommend tab a couple of days after if I remember correctly.
Throwing combined with endurance hunting makes a lot of sense to me
we did trade galloping for bipedal movement which makes us so incredibly slow we have to rely on wit or climbing to escape predators. No chance of outrunning but with that trade off is very efficient movement
Chase animals to exhaustion and pelt it with stones
It actually looks like quadrupedal locomotion evolved separately in the other great apes, rather than being ancestral. Stefan Milo has a good video on the subject, with more detail, but overall, it looks like the ancestral hominids coming down from the trees were bipedal, and that moving on four limbs, knuckle walking, came later in chimpanzees and gorillas.
It is the spine turning, the wind up, this twists the bands of fascia / connective tissue allowing for a release of Kinetic energy. The spiraling action generates much more torque. The spiraling action becomes available only after standing, hence why toddlers struggle to throw until they learn to stand and walk with ease.
Surely we would have been doing this a great amount in games in early history. That's how we would learn to generate torque and accuracy. Games like catch allow for quick feedback loops to be created that also can scale - I stand closer or further away, we change targets, we aim for max vertical, etc
Okey dokey Einstein
Simplified Version (kinda): The reason why we are able to throw things so well is because of our body structure and since throwing anything behind with any real force requires massive amounts of balance our body structures are the most well suited to throw things. apes and other primates can throw things aswell but they kinda just lob things without any force, Now we are able to throw things so well because of our body stucture right?, our body structure achieved this by having shorter arms and longer legs. Okay thats it bye have a great day
And then now we have pitchers throwing 100+ mph
All this human evolution peaked when Randy Johnson exploded that bird in spring training
Kudos to this man and knowledge he dropped on all of us.💪😎🇺🇲
On god, for real, no cap.
I’m a knife and axe throwing. Thanks for this great video.
There is something so primitive and satisfying when throwing knives axes and atlatl darts that it is unlike any other activity. 🔪👍🏼🎯
Dude, a rock would kill you thrown 90mph lol
Right?! And with even a basic sling you could through them easily hundreds of MPH. Then bows and staff slings are a whole other dimension
Think you forgot spears, arrows, lead, explosives and a miniature sun. We just like throwing things!
I see weapons like the sling and the atlatl as extra limbs that throw projectiles with more torque.
it's like a lever extender - larger radius so the object travels faster.
Professors! With all the eyes fixated it's easy to get too focused and lose sight of common sense. Shaped and sharpened tools are much less common to the ancestral man than a good well weighed river rock!
And perhaps not even for hunting. I well aimed rock lobed at an oncoming predator might be more likely. We don't have big teeth or horns or claws but we humans can bite from a distance.
Throwing sticks are great and easy to make/find. Wrist width, forearm length sticks are surprisingly accurate and powerful,
I threw one at a tree and the sound it made on impact was a resounding “CRACK” that echoed a bit, from a throw that wasn’t even full strength, and it hit right where I was looking without practice.
Really? A stick
@@hazeshi6779 nah hes onto something. Throwing sticks are great for small game. That's how boomerangs originated.
@@dontworry4945 that's interesting, the boomerang is a weapon??
Branchless savannah was flat, we probably grabbed rocks and pummeled wildabeast to death
"Ranged weaponry"
Imagine a prehistoric DeGrom and Randy Johnson hunting lions lmao
How is throwing small projectiles not an Olympic sport??
Pointy stick wins again. Seriously swords get all the credit but untill the invention if the cross bow pointy stick was where it was at, preferably a long pointy stick
Imagine, being a lion, killing a low shouldered chimpanzee, when all of a sudden you're rained at by shitton of river stones by the whole low shouldered chimpanzee clan that have long pinty stick
David vs Goliath.