A Chin-Stroking Mystery: Why Are Humans the Only Animals With Chins?
www.smithsonianmag.com
It's an evolutionary conundrum, and scientists are still divided over the answer
  • jadero@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device.

    I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      This whole device sounds morbid but hilarious. Did they like strap dead bodies to a swing and position them like Superman and swing their bodies into a wall fist fist?

      • jadero@lemmy.ca
        1·
        11 months ago

        That would have been awesome, but I suspect that it was just the arms and that it was powered in some way, hence “pendulum-like”.