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My first thought was that a chin may take a punch better...
by sheensleeves 11y ago
My first thought was that a chin may take a punch better...
- jessaustin 11y agoBut protruding chins don't really take punches that well, do they? The prototypical knockout punch is one that suddenly knocks the chin to the side, rotating the skull more quickly than the brain, bruising the brain both when the skull makes contact and when the brain passes the skull and makes contact on the other side.
- troels 11y agoQuite the opposite. A punch on the chin will knock you out easily.
- sheensleeves 11y agoNot to argue, but is being knocked out bad? It seems like a common occurrence to a fight is go to unconscious. Some people have strong chins. Would they do better in a no rules fight historically, if they didn't go down?
- jessaustin 11y agoGetting knocked out in an athletic competition is one thing. Getting knocked out when a neighboring tribe is attempting to kill all your men and old folks, enslave everyone else, and steal everything of value, would probably have been something else.
- sheensleeves 11y agoIf you're unconscious, you're not a threat any more. Live to fight another day.
- jessaustin 11y agoInter-tribal resource wars might be fought by primitives, but they're not fought by idiots. Nor are they fought by chivalrous knights. The throats of unconscious warriors will be cut. Even if a throat was missed in all the chaos, what is the evolutionary advantage to a male of living on after all fertile females have been abducted?
- scotty79 11y agoPunching is the reason we have flat faces. They turned up around the same time we learned how to make fists. There was a research about that recently. This article claims that chins handle stress worse not better (although I'm not sure if they meant stress associated with chewing or getting hit).