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posted by CoolHand on Monday October 26 2015, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-for-a-beating dept.

http://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-hands-fighting-2917/
"As an alternative, we suggest that the hand proportions that allow the formation of a fist may tell us something important about our evolutionary history and who we are as a species," Carrier adds. "If our anatomy is adapted for fighting, we need to be aware we always may be haunted by basic emotions and reflexive behaviors that often don't make sense – and are very dangerous – in the modern world," says biology Professor David Carrier.

Carrier and his collaborators not only have argued our hands evolved partly for punching but that the faces of human ancestors, the australopiths, evolved to resist punching – and that human faces became more delicate as our violence became less dependent on brute force. The new study sought more experimental evidence for his theory using nine male cadaver arms purchased from the university's body donor program and from a private supply company.

Shoryuken!


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  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Monday October 26 2015, @04:55PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Monday October 26 2015, @04:55PM (#254758) Journal

    Now you've made me thing of the "Spitting Image" video-clip of Genesis "Land of Confusion", where the big red button for "Nurse" is right next to the button for "Nuke" on the president's bedside cabinet.

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