Adam Taylor

And that's because of our specialized throwing apparatus in our arm and our shoulders.

And that gave us, yes, this advantage.

And throwing is, as I said, the way we throw is a uniquely human thing.

And it's a very incredibly complicated thing.

And it's rather like cocking a crossbow, a hunter cocking a crossbow.

When we pull our arm back, we store a huge amount of energy inside.

in tendons and ligaments and muscles.

And then when we pull the trigger of our throw, we release that energy.

And that does some pretty incredible things in our arm, including producing the fastest movement our body produces, which is rotation of the humerus bone in our upper arm.

And yes, so that's our sort of amazing superpower throwing.

One reason why we've evolved to be the so-called superior beings that we are today.

We take it for granted.

And I think people who aren't baseball pitchers think that they're bad throwers.

They're not.

They're incredible throwers.

All of us are incredible throwers.

And we take skills like that for granted and don't really understand how and why it happens.

As I said, we just chuck something.

A chimpanzee, you know, as I said, a chimpanzee can't do half of what an eight-year-old baseball pitcher can do, and that's an eight-year-old.

So even poor human throwers are vastly superior to the best animal.