Teeth-Humerus-Femur Index

I am going to create a new index associated with the concept of Stonethrowing.

Up to now, anthropology has worked with only one concept of differentiation of Homo species. They have been working only with Bipedalism as a distinguishing behaviour. Now, Anthropology, in this new century of the 21st century has Stonethrowing as a 2nd concept to distinguish Homo species.

Stonethrowing created bipedalism. Stonethrowing came first to some apelike creature some 8 to 10 million years ago, probably in Italy

Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:44:03 -0600 Archimedes Plutonium wrote: (all snipped except 1 line)

Dentists have numbers for human teeth. I forget the numbering. I know it is those teeth in between the near the front of the mouth but not the incisors or middle teeth. They are small teeth and round and sharp.

But all the teeth of a creature that is eating more meat than before tend to become thinner and sharper. Compare the teeth of apes with humans. Their teeth are thicker and fatter. Because they need to grind plant matter. They need to grind and not cut meat.

With the Stonethrowing theory applied, we can almost make a complete chart of what humanlike fossils should be found. Fossils that are progressively moving towards the teeth of modern man and whose humerus to femur ratio is moving towards that of modern man.

Any fossils found that are not in this progression are suspect as being a offshoot branching which went extinct.

whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Stonethrowing.

:-D

Frans de Waal, evol-psych 22.9.01: Now, please, don't believe everything you hear about apes not throwing. Darwin was talking about monkeys, and Goodall's chimps may not have had much practice. In all research facilities with chimpanzees it is known how well apes throw. This is why projectiles are kept away from them, and why they mostly work with feces. They are deadly accurate, they swing around from the back of their cage and invariably 'nail' the one new face in the crowd with deadly accuracy. Ask any worker in such a facility: it's not rare, and no illusion! Out in the open, their skills are even more striking. I used to photograph the Arnhem chimpanzees from across the moat, where they were at about 10 m from me. I had to be extremely careful because young males tended to throw extremely well. They would see my eye go behind the camera, and all of a sudden it turned out they had a stone with them which they'd throw at me. Males more than females, mostly overhand. (Another tidbit in the debate whether they know if our eyes are for seeing or not .). Then there was the mother who came to the reception with her crying son. She complained that our chimps threw stones. After questioning and an account by a bystander it turned out that the boy had thrown first, and that the same stone had come back to him. The estimated distance of this case was 25 m. In short, the idea that apes can't throw is bogus. It has been around for a long time, but should be tested with apes who have had target practice. I invite all man-the-thrower advocates for a visit - at least if they don't mind some smelly stuff coming their way!