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637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Evolution of Chimpanzees
Three point six million years ago, we were austrolopithesines. We're ape like looking creatures, not much taller than a champanzee. But thefootprints show us very clearly, as it were, walking upright with a bipedal gat just like a human would. If a chimpanzee walks on two legs, its knees are bent, its hips are bent, it can't straighten out and it's very ungainly to get around. The first thing that i suspect happened was this upright gait. And so his throwing, which then allowed us to kill at a distance, is simply the most important military invention in the history of warfare.
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