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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by netizen-936824 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:02AM (#31492230)
Perhaps my example is poor, but it shows that hands are not coupled to predation

I'm specifically talking about the evolution of hands, humans are not the only organism with hands.

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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by samatman on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:15AM (#31492405)
The poster didn't say "hands", they said "your hands".

Your human hands, which co-evolved with throwing things, we have abundant paleontological evidence of this and you may read as many papers on the subject as you would care to.

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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by netizen-936824 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:09AM (#31493121)
Got links to any of those papers?
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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by samatman on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:08PM (#31493891)
Are you vegan? Just curious.
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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by netizen-936824 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:26PM (#31494145)
No, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the topic at hand

Also unsure how that's an appropriate response to a request for citations?

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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by ohwellhere on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:14AM (#31492394)
This seems accurate to me.

Like complex brains are evolutionarily fit because they can solve lots of disparate problems, hands are evolutionarily fit because they can do lots of disparate things.

Of course, we do also then design violins for our specific dexterity.

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