Dr. jonny phd on Nostr: Because who knows it could actually be startlingly recent, maybe theres some combined ...

Because who knows it could actually be startlingly recent, maybe theres some combined level of not having surgery and not having audience or social reinforcement or whatever that made backflips too risky to afford Willy nilly like that, and since you need practice they just generally weren't done. Like maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago?

Or maybe backflips are just continuous through time, we never stopped doing them back through our ape and mammalian forebears, so the question becomes when were we a kind of creature that could not backflip because either we or the environment made the concept of backflip meaningless, like being aquatic or just a bag of goo with no orientation