Credit: William Atkins
Neil Roach, a postdoctoral scientist in GW’s Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University, is the lead researcher for a study published on the cover of the June 27 edition of the journal Nature. By examining evolutionary anatomy and conducting an experiment with baseball players, Dr. Roach and colleagues found that certain anatomical features allow humans to store and release energy in the shoulder—features that first appeared 2 million years ago when man began to hunt.