Comments on: What questions do you want to ask John Hawks on Sunday? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/ Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Rosemary Rocco https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/#comment-492297 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:53:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/#comment-492297 So my question is: To what extent do you think that the dominance of patriarchy has influenced our tendency to only look at about 5% of “human” history and to what extent can paleoanthropology help shed light on the conventions of human family, groups, clans, tribes, etc that by my study seem to have been much less hierarchical and much more cooperative.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/#comment-492296 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:49:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/#comment-492296 I think some of our ancestors were relatively small and weak, and had unimpressive teeth.

Which ones? Are you talking about the 1962 Mets?

]]> By: Jim Thomerson https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/#comment-492295 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:43:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/19/what-questions-do-you-want-to/#comment-492295 It is my impression that modern humans can throw hard and accurately much better than any of the other living great apes. I think some of our ancestors were relatively small and weak, and had unimpressive teeth. Does anyone have a comment on how well they could throw? Given that big bucks are spent on humans who can throw hard and accurately, I imagine the morphology and physiology related to hard accurate throwing is well known. If so, then it should be fairly easy, when the right material is available, to say whether a human ancestor could throw hard and accurately.

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