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Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study
They are capable of delicate surgery, creating beautiful works of art, and comforting someone feeling down, but according to a new study your hands evolved to smash someone in the face. From the article: "Human hands evolved so that men could make fists and fight, and not just for manual dexterity, new research finds.
The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, adds to a growing body of evidence that humans are among the most aggressive and violent animals on the planet.
'With the notable exception of bonobos, great apes are a relatively aggressive group of mammals,' lead author David Carrier told Discovery News. 'Although some primatologists may argue that chimpanzees are the most aggressive apes, I think the evidence suggests that humans are substantially more violent.''"
Not for jacking off?
Now I know why I have the urge to punch stupid people in the face.
Was it for punching foes, or was it for punching the ground before bipedalism became the norm? Orangutans, for example, walk on their fists.
Then arms were made for masturbation. Otherwise why would they not be that length? If they were made for punching, they would be very much longer to minimize the risk to oneself from an attacker. Hands were then made for masturbation as well, otherwise why put them at the end of the perfect length of arm?
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Context is important. Violence is not ubiquitous. See this:7 Things Bonobos Can Teach Us About Love and Sex
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201202/7-things-bonobos-can-teach-us-about-love-and-sex
From years of boxing this couldnt be more obvious.
Your hands will fracture, break, bend, and sometimes emulsify... Especially the forefinger middle knuckle and the top pinky knuckle = 'the boxer break.' Over and over.
But each time calcifying over and becoming stronger. After a while you literally have 'hands of stone.'
Now of course my dexterity isnt what it used to be. Typing and fumbling for computer screws reminds me of my favorite pastime often.
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We were living in a peaceful vegetarian world, munching on salad until the bronze age. Of course, all evidence for this was wiped out by the evil patriarchy.
Your hands are full of very small bones. It's very easy to break your hand by punching something hard and dense (such as a skull or face for instance).
If you want to strike someone in the face, it's smarter to use other parts of the body such as your knee, elbow or to use an open hand strike (such as a palm strike). That way you have the edge of a very long bone delivering the blow.
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Although some primatologists may argue that chimpanzees are the most aggressive apes, I think the evidence suggests that humans are substantially more violent.
Set the chimps down in front of a few Windows systems and we'll see...
[ Sorry, just finished working on my Windows 7 system and reading the recent Windows 8 thread and am feeling a little violent. ]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
And that's just what they'll do
SMASH!!!!
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Oh yeah? I bet he wouldn't say that to my face!
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mishandling relatively short, small diameter, objects reminds you of your favourite pastime ............ just ewwww
Well, I guess somebody has to go against the flood of neurological research showing that humans tend greatly towards the altruistic. "Fists, yeah, that's the ticket. People are inherently violent, and so we're justified being bad to them, because they need to be controlled." Augustine of Hippo called - he wants his Original Sin back.
Troll "research" is troll.
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Humans are gradually getting less violent. Chimps and other relatives of ours are still more violent. You don't measure violence in how many kills one person had the potential and means to create, that is partly based on intelligence, and it also goes into proportions. Second is coverage, sure we see dozens of racial hate crimes in humans for every Chimpanzee lynching, but the odds of an individual chimpanzee taken at random being killed by his own race, is significantly higher than the odds of any one human being murdered. Statistically humans are dwindling down in violence per capita, we just are more aware of every instance, and individual instances are much larger.
After reading the article I believe the authors of the study have graphically demonstrated that their hands are best suited for masturbating.
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More quality research from the Chuck Norris Institute of Bodily Harm. I predict the findings of their next study will either focus on the advantages of delivering a roundhouse kick while wearing jeans.
Yes, they were.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Now when I get in trouble for punching someone, I can tell them it's natural, and part of my evolutionary nature. I was born this way.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/2/236.full
and that's just what they'll do...
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mishandling relatively short, small diameter, objects reminds you of your favourite pastime ............ just ewwww
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And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life
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Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
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Starvation would force you to steal from me
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
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Is that on the Linux command line? I can't find it.
Liam Neeson will be glad to hear this news as he decides what to punch next.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/01/25/145837558/what-should-liam-neeson-punch-next
This line is the only thing that I can find in the article that even slightly resembles evidence suggesting that the hand actually evolved for that purpose, but it seems to make the flawed assumption that since a part of our body is better at doing X one particular way than another, perhaps more natural or obvious way, then the act of doing X must have been the most dominating factor in determining the way that body part evolved, ignoring the significance, or lack thereof, of the benefit it might offer compared to the benefits offered because of other attributes. I would personally suggest that while it may be true that part of the hand's evolution could be attributed to hitting (I believe it was more for self-defense than it was actually being violent), the evolutionary advantage of the human hand for grasping and utilizing objects to do what we will with them almost certainly far outweighs that.
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It was great when Chimp Team Six took out Bin Laden!
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These hands are made for punching And that's just what all do One of these days these hands are....
I find the arguments put forward by the authors of the study rather unconvincing. Once you have an opposable thumb, pretty much anything you can grab on the ground is a better weapon that your fist. Rock anyone?
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It seems the article is more saying that our thumbs have evolved in a manor that allows us to fold it into our hand like our other fingers to protect it (which happens to be useful when fighting). I suspect this evolution was more about being able to grip something than it was about fighting.
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They tell ya, 'Never hit a man with a closed fist.' But it is, on occasion, hilarious.
Whithout a means to cut their nails very short I highly doubt primitive people could ever make a fist to actually punch something.
Ever heard of chewing your nails?
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that punching was made for our fists instead? If we had evolved with swords for arms, no doubt this article would say our arms were made for swordfighting.
There are far far better designs if all you wanted was a weapon. Like getting rid of these brittle fingers that you are just as likely to break as the thing you are punching. And/or adding some claws or horns.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Human fists are a very ineffective weapon. Most animals have claws, sharp teeth or horns for fighting, a fist is nothing compared to that. If a human had a cagefight with a chimpanzee, my bet would not be on the human. Fists aren't even much help against a defenceless animal: a wolf can bite a sheep's neck off within a minute, but beating a sheep to death would be a long, tiresome and painful procedure for a human.
And my fingers have evolved to submit trollish comments. In journalism, such a headline is called "if it bleeds it leads".
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Think about it. Would you rather punch someone, or would you rather pick up a big heavy club and beat someone with it? Yes, we're violent, but we can do so much more with improved dexterity than a simple punch, even with the crudest tools.
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Gorillas and chimpanzees walk on their "knuckles", or on their medial phalanges. Orangutans walk on their fists, or on their proximal phalanges. I thought Wikipedia's article about knuckle-walking made this clear.
obviously, woman's hands evolved to give men handjobs during blowjobs. and make dinner
Humans are only more violent because we stopped using our fists and turned to alternative weapons. If we all had to stand in the middle east dessert and punch each other to death, I don't think it would take very long for people to get tired of it and just go home.
It is obvious to me that hour hands were evolved to pick up rocks and sticks and then either wield them as weapons or throw them.
Making a fist is something we do as a last resort when we are unarmed.
Given what happened in Newtown a week ago, I'd say humans are even more violent than chimps. Its especially true since we've created tools for being violent efficiently and quickly.
Razor-sharp and that go through meat like warm butter. Seems only fair that we have better blunt bashers.
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http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/2/236.full.pdf+html
Perhaps instead of punshing a sand bag they should ask some guys who do martial arts?
First of all: most apes fight. Chimps go to war, kill enemy tribes and take the "wemon" prisoner or rape them.
When Chimps or Bonoboes fight, then the question is: do they fight or do they ritually test their strength? Like in fighting for a better rank in the hierarchy.
Hirarchy or ritual fights are done with fists, just like humans do.
Fighting to kill are done with open hands, just like martial artists do. (Martial artists also use "very special" fist forms, which you don't test on sand bags)
Gorrillas on the other hand don't fight at all. They use fists for ritual fights. However in those cases only the challanger is attacking and the older one is ignoring him and accepting his blows. The winner is determined by "who has the patience to accept the outbreak of the otherone". In other words the gorrila that is turning his back to the attacker an let him beat the back is usually winning, and the attacker simply gives up when his steam is gone.
No primate is fighting with fists to kill ... (if an ape likes to kill he mainly uses his teeth anyway, and struggeling during the fight easily ends in broken limbs or litteraly teared out arms)
So imho the whole research article is utter nonsense.
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Deer, or more precisely, stags, have horns so they can have their tremendous mating battles. Pachycephalosaurus had half of its skull hard bone, because they liked to smash their heads together. If you punch someone in the face, you'll be lucky if you don't break something in your hand. It's quite clear that hands did not evolve for punching. If they did, they'd be made of something very, very hard.