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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |