14 DAY TRIAL // Chimps might be better climbers, but there is no way they can play baseball as well as humans do.
And that's not because their species is pretty much clueless about organized sports, but because they lack the anatomical features that would allow them to grab hold of an object and throw it away at considerable distances.
The video above explains how and why humans got so good at throwing things.
With the help of baseball players who volunteered to take part in a series of experiments, the researchers discovered that it all comes down to how much force the human shoulder and its surrounding muscles pack.
Specialists suspect that humans developed this ability when they had no choice but hunt big game if they wanted to survive.
As biological anthropologist Neil Roach put it, “Throwing projectiles probably enabled our ancestors to effectively and safely kill big game.”