Sujet : Re: Humans evolved for distance running
De : mario.petrinovic1 (at) *nospam* zg.htnet.hr (Mario Petrinovic)
Groupes : sci.anthropology.paleoDate : 24. Dec 2024, 04:15:15
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On 24.12.2024. 4:09, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
https://youtu.be/eaeZ3RrzpLA?si=TosTJRtqh35sa77X
This is like saying, we evolved to fly airplanes, just because today we are capable of flying airplanes
The (wrong) thesis was that we evolved *bipedality* in order to do endurance running. No, we, obviously, didn't. When bipedality was already here, then we could adjust it for endurance running.
They want to show that wrong thesis is right by twisting things upside down. Once again, the thesis that we evolved bipedality in order to endurance running *is wrong*. We evolved bipedality for some other reasons.
I repeat, a lot of animals are bipedal, including gibbons. The real question is why we lost the ability to be quadrupedal. Quadrupedality is extremely important, and ti is much faster than bipedality, especially in non-endurance applications, which are the original applications. So, we desperately needed quadrupedality (unlike gibbons, who don't need it at all, and yet, they didn't lose the ability for it). So, we needed quadrupedality, and yet, we lost it. Why? It has to be really important reason. I know why, but nobody listens to me.
https://youtube.com/shorts/g2-w3zApZvI?si=WKDj_HkQEt05fjV3