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The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?

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The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
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The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
June 30, 2013 at 12:18 pm
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...adaptation

Quote:It’s easy to marvel at the athleticism required to throw a 90-mile-per-hour fastball, but when Neil Roach watches baseball, he sees something else at work – evolution.

That ability – to throw an object with great speed and accuracy – is an uniquely human adaptation, one that Roach believes was crucial in our evolutionary past. How, when and why humans evolved the ability to throw so well is the subject of a study published in the journal Nature. The team found that a suite of changes to our shoulders and arms allowed early humans to more efficiently hunt by throwing projectiles, helping our ancestors become part-time carnivores and paving the way for a host of later adaptations, including increases in brain size and migration out of Africa.

OF course, the creatards will insist that "adam" had a 90 mph fastball, too!
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RE: The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
June 30, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Awesome. That's for the website link. I didn't know about this one.
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RE: The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
June 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm
Jesus invented baseball and the fastball.
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June 30, 2013 at 11:14 pm
I posted this on "The Thinking Atheist" and some guy came back with this.






Pretty funny except to our British cousins who don't know much about baseball.
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RE: The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
June 30, 2013 at 11:15 pm
(June 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Jesus invented baseball and the fastball.

Noah and his family were one of the original MLB teams, durr.
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RE: The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
June 30, 2013 at 11:21 pm
(June 30, 2013 at 11:15 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(June 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Jesus invented baseball and the fastball.

Noah and his family were one of the original MLB teams, durr.

Always getting rained out.
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July 1, 2013 at 5:34 pm (This post was last modified: July 1, 2013 at 5:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)



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July 1, 2013 at 5:37 pm (This post was last modified: July 1, 2013 at 5:39 pm by Ryantology.)
(June 30, 2013 at 11:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(June 30, 2013 at 11:15 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Noah and his family were one of the original MLB teams, durr.

Always getting rained out.

Everyone else got rained out, so Noah won the World Series kind of in a literal way. And then Noah thanks God for scoring a touchdown.
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July 2, 2013 at 12:58 pm
(June 30, 2013 at 11:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Pretty funny except to our British cousins who don't know much about baseball.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersp...erica.html

Quote:A diary has been found which describes the game being played by a teenager in Guildford in 1755.
Previously it had been thought that the game developed in America in the 1790s.
But this new proof indicates that the British can claim to have invented yet another of the world's great games, formerly considered as American as apple pie.



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RE: The Fastball - Evolution's Peak?
July 2, 2013 at 1:00 pm
British "baseball" would be as exciting as British cooking....or warm beer.
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