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Elastic energy storage in the shoulder and the evolution of high-speed throwing in Homo

Although some primates, including chimpanzees, throw objects occasionally(1,2), only humans regularly throw projectiles with high speed and great accuracy. Darwin noted that humans’ unique throwing abilities, made possible when bipedalism emancipated the arms, enabled foragers to effectively hunt us...

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Autores principales: Roach, Neil T., Venkadesan, Madhusudhan, Rainbow, Michael J., Lieberman, Daniel E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23803849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12267