28 pointsby mefengl8 months ago4 comments

m4638 months ago
I think (loosely) of another published paper:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2997957/
“Why I Hate the Index Finger” by William L. White, M.D., was originally published in Orthopaedic Review, Volume IX, No. 6 (June 1980) pp. 23–29.
AnonC8 months ago
Needs 2024 in the title.
This article would’ve been a lot more interesting for laypeople if it had pictures showing the described muscle and tissue structures.
> The most fundamental evolutionary act is motion, not cognition
This is highly reductive. Evolution and survival cannot be explained by one single facet of a biological organism.
- hoseja8 months ago
  And ignores the first couple billion years just manifesting the basic biochemical machinery of cells out of chaos.
dullcrisp8 months ago
Ironic that we went and invented wheels.
- otabdeveloper48 months ago
  The first real wheels were invented in the mid Bronze Age, i.e., much later than cities and pyramids and civilizations.
  Wheels are a recent and relatively untested contraption in the grand timeline of human inventions.
- janderson2158 months ago
  “This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
- tbrownaw8 months ago
  ... And then followed that up by inventing lots more different kinds of wheels.
8 months ago
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