3 bones near the index finger Re: Lucy armthrowing compared to Orrorin

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>               Lucy armthrowing compared to Orrorin
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>               Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:06:08 -0600
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>               Archimedes Plutonium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Saw tonight on TV with Alan Alda talking to Mary Marzle of Arizona State
> 
> Univ (spelling) in Scientific American Frontiers. She had the fossil
> bone
> replicas of Lucy which is approx 3.2 million years old.
> 
> Orrorin is approx 6 million years old.
> 
> I thought Mary was going to talk about the elbow region for throwing.
> For when last visited this topic I was focused on the medial epicondyle
> as the likely signature for stonethrowing as the Pickford femur
> signature for bipedalism. But instead Mary focused on the bones near the
> knuckles of the fingers. I forgotten
> what they are called.
> 
> It was mentioned that aped do throw stones but they are underarm
> throwing.
> 
> So I wonder if those finger bones near the knuckles are important as to
> whether you throw overarm or underarm?
> 
> I am guessing that no finger or elbow or arm bone fossils of Orrorin
> have
> ever been found.
> 
> As I remarked in my last several posts, that the most important project
> for anthropology science is to have a worldwide conference where
> everyone with
> hominid fossils analyze and compare the Stonethrowing ability of their
> specimens.
> 
> If I am correct, then the path from ape to human was the path of ever
> increasing
> Stone and Rock Throwing. The behaviour of stonethrowing created
> bipedalism
> and further advances in the behaviour of stonethrowing would lead
> directly to the human species. I would say the science of anthropology
> is a science that is 90% about one thing--- Throwing behaviour of rocks
> and stones.
> 
> Anthropology science has never held a conference where the theme is
> Stonethrowing and a comparison of all specimen fossils found to date.
> There should be. Perhaps Alan Alda can organize that and by doing so
> would highly
> accelerate progress and advance in that science.
> 

Had a chance to see a repeat of this program and the name is Mary
Marzke.
She said there are 3 bones at the base of the fingers where the
fingers
meet the hands and these 3 bones allow for rotation for firm grasp of
the opposable thumb. Chimps do not have these 3 bones and so chimps
are unable to throw overhand. Only humans have these 3 bones. Anyone
have a scientific
name for these 3 bones. Apparently Lucy had these 3 bones.

But I wonder how far back in anthropology history do these bones
exist? Did Orrorin have these 3 bones. Did Oreopithecus have these 3
bones. If they did, then that would offer evidence in proof that both
Orrorin and Oreopithecus were not only bipedal but were Stonethrowers
and that the ability to throw rocks and stones transformed them from
quadraped to biped. Stonethrowing came first and bipedalism followed
as a result of stonethrowing.

What are the names of those 3 bones that Mary talks about? And did
Orrorin or Oreopithecus have those 3 bones???

Hunch: I believe that the extinction of Neanderthal was due to the
fact that Neanderthal was less of a stonethrower than was his rival.
So if my above is correct in part or in whole would imply that those 3
bones of Neanderthal are more primitive than his rival and only a
matter of time before the superior stonethrower would extinct the
inferior stonethrower (Neanderthal). I would be awfully surprized that
none of those 3 bones of Neanderthal have ever been found.

Archimedes Plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies