Re: Gibbons and Gradients

From: Jim McGinn (jimmcginn_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: 5 Jun 2004 23:38:45 -0700

algis@RiverApes.com (Algis Kuliukas) wrote

> Jim, you're not really taking on what I'm saying. In shallow water
> even if the ape could swim, it's not going to because it's limbs are
> going to be banging against the bottom. For an ape, it's not a
> question of 'straining' to assume a bipedal stance in water - it's the
> easiest, most natural thing to do. If wading was a part of the
> repertoire of the earliest bipedal hominids, I'd expect that they
> probably would swim better than chimps do - but in shallow water
> they'd still move bipedally - just like humans tend to.

This is where we delve off into the never never land of Algis'
imagination. Have you ever waded? When the water is deep enough to
provide support it is too restrictive to move through quickly. If you
didn't have your head inserted firmly up your ass and you got out of
the house once in a while and, maybe, took a trip to the beach you'd
realize this.

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