Comments on: Human Hands Evolved for Punching https://www.isegoria.net/2012/12/human-hands-evolved-for-punching/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2012/12/human-hands-evolved-for-punching/comment-page-1/#comment-690453 Alrenous Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:45:48 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30728#comment-690453 I think Carrier might be onto something, but he should look into throwing instead of punching.

Summary: We have glutes so we can throw hard enough to kill conspecifics, which invokes Lanchester’s square law, and that changes everything. I would alter to potentially changes everything, as Bingham doesn’t really know what is chicken and what is egg.

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