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Tell me sci

>> No.9729585
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9729585

me

>> No.9729602

>>9729575
>bending the wrist
Shameful.

>> No.9729605

Isaac Punch invented the punch in 9000 BC and named it after himself

>> No.9729792

>>9729575
unga invented the punch in 10,000 during a dispute about which berries tasted better

>> No.9730109

There is actually a serious answer to this.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/09/human-face-developed-over-5m-years-of-fighting-scientists-claim

"Five million years of slugging it out with fists has left its mark on the human face, scientists believe. Evidence suggests it evolved to minimise damage from altercations after our ancient ancestors learned how to throw a punch.

Researchers studied the bone structure of australopiths, ape-like bipeds living 4m to 5m years ago which predated the modern human primate family Homo. They found that australopith faces and jaws were strongest in just those areas most likely to receive a blow from a fist.

US lead researcher Dr David Carrier, from the University of Utah, said the australopiths had hand proportions that allowed the formation of a fist, in effect turning the hand into a club.

"If indeed the evolution of our hand proportions was associated with selection for fighting behaviour you might expect the primary target, the face, to have undergone evolution to better protect it from injury when punched."

The study, published in the journal Biological Reviews, builds on previous work indicating that violence played a greater role in human evolution than many experts would like to admit.

Carrier, a biologist, has investigated the short legs of great apes, the bipedal posture of humans and the hand proportions of hominins, or early human species. He argues that these traits evolved, to a large extent, around the need to fight.

More in the article.

>> No.9730214

>>9729585
yes him I was there

>> No.9730245

probably monkeys

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9730251

This nigga

>> No.9730254

Gorillas hammerfist things which is not so different from a punch

>> No.9730349

>>9729585
I call it the Hawking-Punch

>> No.9730756

>>9729575
grug

>> No.9730801

Kane, duh

>> No.9730813

>>9730349
Hawking Biological Kinetic Device

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>>9729575
Cain.

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9730983

Richard Spencer

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>>9729575
pic related

>> No.9731017

>>9730109
>implying anthropology offers anything more than just speculation
at least psychology can in theory be a science given a large and specific enough population, since it is mainly based on statistics. Anthropology only has enough evidence to be counted on one hand for each case scenario, and the rest comes from speculation. Even those dates coming from carbon dating that everyone all loves to hear have serious flaws and can have errors on the order of 0.1x or 10x the number of years. No wonder these articles always end with "this topic remains debated by many experts".