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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Now that someone else has brought up a question that I didn’t even know I wanted answered, I’m wondering if our brains were special in some way for being able to use throwing to our advantage throughout our history. I mean, at some point, a caveman had to notice it was even more effective to *throw* a spear at a dangerous animal than it was to walk up and stick it. Do other apes besides us use thrown objects with any sort of efficacy, or is it all “chimps throwing poop” levels of throwing?
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