Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

Science Daily ^ | 6-11-2008 | University of Missouri-Columbia.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[ClearCase_guy]

Intelligent Design.

But through an iterative process.

[Onelifetogive]

Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

Really??? I was sure the first one they ever made was perfect.

[Grizzled Bear]

I believe this may interest you...

[Wolfie]

No kidding? I figured that it just came together perfectly right from the start.

[Soliton]

evolution is everywhere

[Sax]

Well, heck yeah, look at all the new variables introduced: shaft construction type and materials, broadhead size and type, fletchings, bow construction, string selection.

You take it for granted that you can order up some aluminum Easton shafts personalized in length for your personal draw, and Muzzie broadheads for your PSE bow.

[Army Air Corps]

I shall file this under “No $***, Sherlock.”

[max americana]

Then the cavemen discovered fire...

cavemen discovered 2 sticks rubbed against the fire would produce energy...

cavemen discover bullets when the stones they put into the fire made it;s way into the air...

cavemen discover guns which made the bow and arrow look foolish when the tribe used it to kill off the dinosaurs...

[Repeal The 17th]

This sounds to me like someone just stating the obvious.

[Yogafist]

And to think, these clowns are getting paid for this.

[AndrewB]

Yeah me too. I thought they just pulled it full-fledged out of their butt like most of man’s other inventions. Glad some scientist made a buck off this.

[exit82]

Amazing.Trial and error. What a novel concept. Never heard of it before.

The first bow must have been square, with the arrow having a point on both ends.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Ugh! Bow suck!

[Beowulf9]

Or should that be “No B$*** Barney”?

[girlangler]

You’ll like this one.

[VanShuyten]

The interesting part is that they didn’t have bows and arrows until 500 AD. That’s a little hard to believe.

[shibumi]

"The first bow must have been square, with the arrow having a point on both ends."


Actually the bow looked pretty much as it does now, and the arrows did too. It just took them a while to get the string on the backside of the bow. They finally got it right after about 30 cavemen (thought to belong to the United Socialist Democrat Caveweapon Builders Union) impaled themselves in the throat.


I took a while because with injuries of this type they were unable to communicate to the other union members just what went wrong.

[mylife]

Gee ya think early man used empirical methods?