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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 10, 2008 02:14
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.
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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 10, 2008 10:37
Archimedes Plutonium wrote last night:
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> 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. ...
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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 10, 2008 11:08
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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> Let me start off with mine own measure:
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> I am 1700 mm from head to toe
> thumb I call #1 finger and is 70 mm
> little finger I call #5 and is 65 mm
> #2 finger = 75 mm
> #3 finger = 83 mm
> #4 finger = 79 mm
>
> big toe, I call #1 toe = 59 mm
> little toe, I call #5 toe = 40 mm
> #2 toe = 55 mm
> #3 toe = 47 mm
> #4 toe = 47 mm
>
> Now my right hand matches my left hand of its finger length. However,
> my right foot toes
> do not match my left foot toes. On my right foot the #3 and #4 toes ...
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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 11, 2008 09:20
> Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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>> Let me start off with mine own measure:
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>> I am 1700 mm from head to toe
>> thumb I call #1 finger and is 70 mm
>> little finger I call #5 and is 65 mm
>> #2 finger = 75 mm
>> #3 finger = 83 mm
>> #4 finger = 79 mm
>>
>> big toe, I call #1 toe = 59 mm
>> little toe, I call #5 toe = 40 mm
>> #2 toe = 55 mm
>> #3 toe = 47 mm
>> #4 toe = 47 mm
>>
>> Now my right hand matches my left hand of its finger length. However,
>> my right foot toes ...
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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 11, 2008 09:52
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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> Basically, if you look at the hands and feet of Chimpanzee and of
> Gorilla and Orangutan and
> Bonobo, their feet is very much still a copy of their hands in that
> their function is still primarily
> living in trees and climbing with opposable big toe and opposable
> thumb. However, in humans
> the opposable toe had to go and the toes had to become smaller to
> accomodate the foot for
> a different function-- the driving function of throwing. The hands and
> throwing arm is now the
> evolutionary driver of the feet anatomy.
>
Most of Anthropology grew up with Darwin's theory of bipedalism which
is essentially
the Savannah Hypothesis that increasing plains with decreasing trees
evolved the
quadraped locomotion of human ancestors to become biped.
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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 11, 2008 14:57
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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> Now today I weigh 59 kg and can comfortably move and pommell in the 20
> to 34 Kg
> range.
>
Sorry my scale is not accurate and misread it. I weigh 63 Kg today,
not 59 Kg. I did weigh
59 Kg during most of High School but my weight in the 50s is
stabilized around 63 Kg. When
I get to 60 Kg and below I feel more hungry and tired than able to
work.
The best way to diet is to not have any good food in the house. The
best in house now is last
summer's canned fruit. And so I do not binge eat because there is
nothing really that good
to eat till it is all gone. So if you are serious about dieting, well,
it starts at the grocery store.
Do not buy anything that you will binge eat.
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Author: plutonium.archimedesplutonium.archimedes Date: Jun 11, 2008 22:59
I shall return to this subject in August for I want to be true to my
word that I am on vacation.
I believe a Trebuchet will act as almost a perfect modeling of the
dependence of the evolution
of the human foot due to the driving force of enhancing the
rockthrowing. So that Rockthrowing
started some...
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