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My friend in neurobiology sent me this real abstract. Delightfull !:

Trends Cogn Sci 2001 Mar 1;5(3):98-99

Sex differences in throwing: monkeys having a fling.

Watson NV

Dept of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive,
BC, V5A
1S6.\, Burnaby, Canada


[Record supplied by publisher]

Fast and accurate throwing was undoubtedly important to ancestral hominids, and was subject to sexual-selection pressures that generated a male advantage in throwing accuracy that persists in modern humans. The balance of evidence, including that from a recent comparative study of throwing in humans and capuchin monkeys, suggests that high-performance throwing involves unique adaptations in the domains of spatial targeting, precision timing, and multi-joint motor control.

PMID: 11239802


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