Hard throwers evolved a long time ago

Contested study traces slingshot shoulders to 2-million-year-old ancestor

Baseball pitchers making big bucks to hurl horsehides are carrying on a 2-million-year-old tradition.

PITCHING’S PAST College baseball players and other athletes hurled baseballs to provide scientists with data suggesting, in a controversial analysis, that humanlike throwing abilities evolved around 2 million years ago. Harvard Athletic Communications

Upper bodies that could throw objects at high speeds appeared for the first time in a human ancestor known as Homo erectus, say biological anthropologist Neil Roach of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,