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How Much of Tact X Is Because of Male Contest Competition?
For any trait of any organism, there are often many selection pressures operating on it simultaneously. It makes complete sense about why the men would have this overpowered throwing ability. If it was mostly them that were having to go out and throw stuff at other animals. So large body size, muscularity, aggression, those things have existed probably for tens of millions of years in our lineage way before there was anything like, you know, specialized hunting.