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byhey! ( 33014 ) writes:
The problem I have with these theories is that they don't explain why the hand is so poorly adapted to *deliver* punches. It wouldn't be complicated, you've got all you need to start with given normal variations in hand anatomy. Favor the guys with extra sturdy 5th metacarpals, and voila! Boxer's fractures are a thing of th evolutionary past.
It's just hard to buy that punching exerts such a dramatic evolutionary pressure on various anatomical features and leaves the fist something a person has to be *ta
bybitt3n ( 941736 ) writes:
The problem I have with these theories is that they don't explain why the hand is so poorly adapted to *deliver* punches.
Actually it has been proposed that humans are unique amongst primates in the fact that their hands developed in part to maximize destructive punching power. [economist.com]
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