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Hands evolved to punch faces. Faces evolved to take punches. That’s the hypothesis being bandied about by University of Utah researchers Michael Morgan and David Carrier, the pair proposing that th…

Awesome takedown of the “men evolved to punch each other in the face” piece of “news” I responded to earlier.

“There’s no evidence that australopithecines fought like this. The entire conjecture is based on sports like mixed martial arts and modern crime stats. And females don’t even figure into Morgan and Carrier’s hypothesis. Female mate choice, and why sexual dimorphism between the sexes has drastically decreased through time, is either ignored or overshadowed by the belief that we owe are [sic] most distinctive features to males walloping each other.  This is bro science – dudes pummeling each other driving human evolution.”

Academic machismo at it’s absolute finest.

"our skulls didn’t evolve to be punched” is something i look forward to richard dawkins whining at me once it becomes clear around the 6th punch that i’m not going to release him from this half nelson for a while

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