From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 10:08:45 MDT
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Jeff Fabijanic <jeff@primordialsoft.com> Wrote:
>upright animals see better over tall grass, and present a smaller
>cross-section to the hot savana sun
I've heard that theory but I think it unlikely. It seem like lots of
open grass land should push us in the opposite direction toward a fast
animal with 4 legs, bipedalism should work better in a dense jungle but
that's not what happened. It's a mystery.
>they adapted a grasping hand into a *throwing* hand. And it is perhaps
>the increased brain power necessary to accurately project a missile to
> it's target that really started our incredibly fast ride up the river of intelligence.
I've heard that too, and it would be a very hard way to make a living. I think even
major league baseball pitchers, who are better at it than 99.99% of the other members
of their species, would soon starve to death if they were just eating animals they killed
by throwing irregular rocks at them.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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