For example, if you’re standing 20 feet away from me, and you tell me to throw you a ball, how is my arm able to generate almost the exact amount of power required to throw the ball 20 feet? How and where does this “calculation” happen?
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Hunter brains are extremely good at judging the distance and speed of objects.
Knowing how much force your muscles can exert for how to catch that moving object is critical for survival.
This applies to any animal that uses force to defend itself, needing to determine how to engage an enemy.
At some point tools became usable. Many animals can understand tools. But the combination of opposable thumbs and capacity to throw these tools makes you a huge threat.
Humans did not begin as proficient throwers, but we continued to evolve to be so, not so much for the mental capacity, but the shoulder and back construction.
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