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I have a beautiful breakthrough in Anthropology to announce. The last
time I wrote on
this subject was 26 Feb 2008 from watching the NOVA TV show on "Genius
Ape"
showing chimpanzee's outbesting humans in a game of memory.
It was last friday will driving to do some mowing that an idea came
out of the blue
on this subject. I was not thinking of Stonethrowing at all, but just
out of the clear
blue a thought zipped through my mind. The thought was, "why not focus
on the
co-evolution of the foot with the hand to prove Stonethrowing created
Homo sapiens?"
Well, I let the thought pass and focused on my driving to the job of
mowing and would
wait till I got home to search the differences in anatomy of a ape
foot to human foot
and ape hand to human hand.
Let me say something else about the history of my Stonethrowing theory
which was started
in year 2002 with this post:
--- quoting old post of 2002 ---
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology, sci.logic
From: Archimedes Plutonium <a_pluton... at (no spam) dtgnet.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:24:18 -0500
Local: Mon, Aug 12 2002 7:24 am
Subject: Logic applied to Anthropology
(most snipped to save space)
This accurate stone-thrower would thus create a Hominid species in
Asia
from the Orangutan line and almost simultaneously create a different
Hominid species in Africa from the Chimpanzee line. Perhaps another
Hominid species created from the Gorilla line.
--- end quoting part of my old post of 2002 ---
Then this Stonethrowing theory became very active for me after seeing
another PBS
TV show about Orrorin with Pickford citing that the Orrorin fossil
proves bipedalism due
to the "femur groove". Orrorin is 6 million years old.
Ever since that show, I have been looking for the anatomical proof
that Homo sapiens
evolution was generated by Stonethrowing or some may want to call it
Rockthrowing.
Stonethrowing came first and later created bipedalism. Stonethrowing,
according to this theory
started about 10 million years ago in approximately Southern Italy of
perhaps Sardinia aroung
that area where a apelike creature began throwing rocks and stones as
a habit. This throwing
habit increased the food for the thrower and pommelled his rivals and
predators and increased
his power and rights to mate with females. His throwing habit thus was
genetically increased
in his increasing offspring.
So how to prove this Stonethrowing theory? Well, for years since 2002,
I have been looking for
a signature or fingerprint of some bone anatomy that proves throwing
was the propulsion of
a apelike creature into what will become Homo sapiens. I was looking
of the similar fingerprint
for throwing that Pickford found for bipedalism-- the femur groove. No
such luck, because climbing
trees is wanting of a similar bone structure and muscle structure for
the hands that the
present day apes have. And modern day chimps throw on occasions only
provided they
throw underarm.
But now I have a marvelous breakthrough in the proof of the
Stonethrowing theory. A method
that does not even need the fossil record and a method that uses
mostly physics.
But before I tell you the method let me quote what is known about the
comparative
anatomy of modern apes with human anatomy:
--- begin quoting from Journal of Anatomy ---
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1571304
Journal of Anatomy
J Anat. 2004 May; 204(5): 403–416.
Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion
W E H Harcourt-Smith1 and L C Aiello2
1Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural
History, New York, USA
2Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK
In the 1920s and 1930s arguably the prevailing view (e.g. Gregory,
1916, 1928; Keith, 1923 Keith, 1928; Morton, 1924 1935) was that
bipedalism evolved in a relatively linear fashion from a brachiating,
hylobatid-like ancestor, passing through a larger-bodied vertical
climbing stage, then a terrestrial knuckle-walking stage before
finally reaching obligate, plantigrade bipedalism.
(And later on in this website-- quoting--)
Much more recently, two additional models of pedal evolution have been
proposed, one by Lewis (1989) and the other by Kidd (1999). These
differ from Morton's model in that both of these refer to the
anatomical details of the transformation of an ape-like foot with an
opposable hallux to a human-like one in which the great toe is
adducted in line with the lateral toes, the tarsal region is
stabilized and the foot is modified to act as a propulsive lever.
--- end quoting from J of Anatomy ---
Apparently the modern apes have opposable thumbs but also have
opposable toes. Humans
have only opposable thumbs. So the ape, some 10 million years ago that
started to make throwing
a habit which favored him in getting more food and more mates and thus
increasing his
offspring who would also be throwers.
Alright, enough history and preliminary, and let me get to the Method
of proof of Stonethrowing theory.
From the above website of Journal of Anatomy and from a U. of Texas
website describes the
length of the fingers and toes of apes to human. Describes the length
of the arm bones and
leg bones of apes to humans.
We can safely assume the 10 million year old ancestor of our species
was somewhat similar
to gorilla or chimpanzee in that the length of their fingers and toes
were similar and that
this ancient ancestor had both opposable toe and opposable thumb.
My method of proof is using physics. The only way to get the length of
the toes and fingers
and the arm bones and leg bones to be what they are in Homo sapiens is
through a driving
force of Throwing. If you take a modern chimpanzee and correct its
toes and leg bones to match
that of humans, the only way to achieve that feat of change is to
assume the chimp was
throwing in a period of 10 million years.
Physics of finger length and arm bones compared to toe length and leg
bones will end up
with a solution of how these lengths can be derived only with a
solution that the body was
actively throwing rocks and stones.
The reason our toes are so tiny compared to our finger lengths is
because when throwing
the toe length has an optimum size to use the lower body as a lever.
If our toes were as
long as modern ape toes, we could not be habitual throwers for the
physics of a chimp or
gorilla do not allow that activity.
So instead of Pickford finding a unique signature of bipedalism in the
femur-groove, well, I
have to find a comparison-base for the hand and the comparison-base is
the foot.
The foot of Homo sapiens was created by the hand of Homo sapiens in
that some 10 million
years ago this ancient ancestor started to habitually throw rocks and
stones and his hand
in his offsprings evolved into more and more throwing which started to
link to the foot evolution
to enhance the throwing. So the length of the fingers and arm bones
evolved for better throwing
and thus the foot and leg bones co-evolved in tandem for better
throwing.
So the physics does the proving. That our finger length is tied to the
length of our toes all
in order to "better throw". If you change the numeric length of these
fingers, toes and bones
you end up with a less than adequate thrower.
If a physics computer modelling were devised to see what is the
optimum length of fingers
and arm bones with toes and foot and leg bones then the program would
end up with
a description of modern day man. If the program started with a chimp
anatomy or gorilla anatomy
the same end result would accrue. That the lengths of this appendages
and bones are there
because we evolved as the "throwing ape".
Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
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