dry ape nonsense (Re: What is the Aquatic theory?

From: Marc Verhaegen (fa204466_at_skynet.be)
Date: 09/13/04


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:19:58 +0200


"J Moore" <anthrosciguy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4cO0d.396323$gE.286961@pd7tw3no...

> > So, again, you're just wrong. Compared to apes we ARE naked and compared
to all primates we're fat. How could that be, Jim? What's your ecological
scenario for explaining that? Is it the
slightly-less-wooded-than-chimp-habitats-but-slightly-more-wooded-than-might
-be-labelled-savannahs-because-that-was-a-straw-man-invented-by-Elaine-Morga
n habitat? And if it is why did it have such a drammatic effect?

> Both features are quite obviously sexually selected,

Man, you're raving: how can features that are seen in both sexes as well as
in children be sexually selected. Apes are less fat than men & women &
children, and are more naked than men & women & children. Think a bit before
saying something. For a scientific critique of AAT see
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Symposium.html



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