It would be funny to think of what might actually be a human thing. Like, our arms are quite weird, right? So potentially another intelligent species even on a rocky planet might not invent throwing spears, right? Even our close relatives, the chimpanzees, can’t use them well at all. Even fairly flighty animals seem to barely have the idea that a creature standing, like, tens of feet away from them might be “in range.”

I wonder what the trajectory (no pun intended) of the development of melee spears would be, without throwing spears.

The spear being a wildly popular a successful weapon for almost all of history, any changes to spears would, I guess, make a big difference.