Re: Bipedal Orrorin?
From: Algis Kuliukas (algis_at_RiverApes.com)
Date: 10/13/04
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Date: 13 Oct 2004 03:00:55 -0700
Rich Travsky <traRvEsky@hotMOVEmail.com> wrote in message news:<416C99F5.18999F25@hotMOVEmail.com>...
> firstjois wrote:
[..]
> > And in 9 years AAT hasn't been able to dredge up anything to improve their
>
> That's it in a nutshell.
>
> > situation, it's easy to see Ralph Holloway's original statements still
> > apply.
I disagree. Let's see - nine years. So, we're talking about evidence
that has emerged since 1995, ok?
1996
-Findings showing consumption of crocodile/turtles/catfish of early
humans
[Rybczynski, Natalia; Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane; Stewart, Kathlyn M
(1996). The Ethnoarchaeology of Reptile Remains at a Lake Turkana
Occupation Site, Kenya. Journal of Archeological Science Vol:23
Pages:863-867]
-New observations of Pan troglodytes wading in rivers in the Congo
Republic.
[Karlowski, Ulrich (1996). The Conkouati Chimpanzee Refuge - a New
Chance for Orphans. Gorilla 1996]
1997
-Reed's paper arguing that A'piths lived in "wooded, well watered"
habitats.
[Reed, Kay E (1997). Early hominid evolution and ecological change
through the African Plio-Pleistocene. Journal of Human Evolution
Vol:32 Pages:289-322]
-Elaine Morgan's latest and best work.
[Morgan, Elaine (1997). The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. Souvenir Press
(London)]
-Langdon's attempt at a refutation - very weak, and a complete
misrepresentation of the arguments.
[Langdon, John H (1997). Umbrella hypotheses and parsimony in human
evolution: a critique of the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. Journal of Human
Evolution Vol:33 Pages:479-494]
-Bender et al's paper arguing for the wading hypothesis.
[Bender, Rebato; Verhaegen, Marc; Oser, Nicole (1997). Acquisition of
human bipedal gait from the viewpoint of the aquatic ape theory.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger Vol:55(1) Pages:1-14]
-Oreopithecus' postural behaviour appears to have been somewhat
bipedal.
[Kohler, Meike, Moya-Sola, Salvador (1997). Ape-like or hominid-like?
The positional behaviour of Oreopithecus bambolii reconsidered.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Vol:94
Pages:11747-11750]
1998
-Broadhurst et al's paper arguing for marine food chain foods in human
evolution.
[Broadhurst, C Leigh; Cunnane, Stephen C; Crawford, Michael A (1998).
Rift Valley lake fish and shellfish provided brain-specific nutrition
for early Homo. British Journal of Nutrition Vol:79 Pages:3-21]
-BBC Documentary 'The Aquatic Ape' completed. Includes very good
footage and interviews with Tobias openly encouraging his peers to be
open to the hypothesis. Oddly, this documentary has never been
screened in the UK.
-Landmark paper showing that western lowland gorillas are very
comfortable in water and, above certain depths, tend to move
bipedally.
[Doran, Diane M; McNeilage, Alistair (1998). Gorilla Ecology and
Behaviour. Evolutionary Anthropology Vol:6(4) Pages:120-131]
-Tobias paper on Water and human evolution, very open to many of the
AAH ideas.
[Tobias, Phillip V (1998). Water and Human Evolution. Out There Vol:3
Pages:38-44]
-Pond's anti-AAH viewpoint published. Again, like, Langdon she
exaggerates the AAH position and completely ignores aspects of
buoyancy. Spells out, nevertheless, the clear fact that humans are
significanty fatter than other primates, including Pan.
[Pond, Caroline M (1998). The Fats of Life. Cambridge University Press
(Cambridge)]
-Potts paper casting further doubts on a savanna origin for man and
the importance of a distinct shift twowards aridity.
[Potts, Richard (1998). Environmental Hypotheses of Hominin Evolution.
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology Vol:41 Pages:93-136]
-Paper adding weight to the evidence that fish and marine food chain
foods are healthy options for humans.
[Hibblen, Joseph (1998). Fish Consumption and Depression. Lancet
Vol:352 (9121) Pages: 71]
1999
-Evidence that Iodine is important in human evolution
[Dobson, Jerome E (1999). The Iodine Factor in Health and Evolution. ?
Vol: Pages:]
-More arguments in favour of oreopithecus' bipedality
[Rook, Lorenzo; Bondioli, Luca; Kohler, Meike; Moya-Sola, Salvador;
Macchiarelli, Roberto (1999). Oreopithecus was a bipedal ape after
all: Evidence from the iliac cancellous architecture. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of USA Vol:96 Pages:8795-8799]
-Another paper showing that shaving body hair reduces drag for
competitive swimmers.
[Kruger, J; Mikoleit, J; Heck, H (2000). The influence of total body
shaving on performance and lactic acid behaviour in swimming. DEUTSCHE
ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR SPORTMEDIZIN Vol:51(2) Pages:55-58]
2000
-Pro-wetland ape article by primatologist Simon Bearder
[Bearder, Simon (2000). Flood Brothers. BBC Wildlife magazine]
-Another paper on the role of water in human evolution by Tobias
[Tobias, Phillip V (2000). The Role of Water in the extra-African
dispersal of humanity. International Symposium on hominid evolution.]
-Anti-AAH parts of Roede et al finally critiqued
http://www.riverapes.com/AAH/FoF/FactOrFiction.htm
2001
-Evidence of earlier bipedality than previously thought - before
savannah grasslands became common - Orrorin
[Senut, Brigitte; Pickford, Martin; Gommery, Dominique; Mein, Pierre;
Cheboi, Kiptalam; Coppens, Yves (2001). First hominid from the Miocene
(Lukeino Formation, Kenya). C R Acad Sci Paris Sciences de la Terre et
des planets Vol:332 Pages:137-144]
-Evidence that a'piths had traits indicating knuckle-walking [The
authors did not argue for this, but it's a possible interpretation
whcih is, clearly, consistent with the wading hypothesis]
[Richmond, Brian G; Strait, David S. (2001). Reply: Did our ancestors
knuckle-walk?. Nature Vol:410 Pages:326]
-More evidence of 'wet and wooded habitats for the earliest bipeds
[WoldeGabriel, Giday; Haile-Selassie, Yohannes; Renne, Paul; Hart,
William K; Ambrose, Stanley H; Asfaw, Berhane; Heiken, Grant; White,
Tim D. (2001). Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle
Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia. Nature Vol:412 Pages:175-178]
-More evidence of water-based locomotion in gorillas
[Parnell, Richard J; Buchanan-Smith, Hannah M (2001). An unusual
social display by gorillas. Nature Vol:412 Pages:294]
-Evidence that polar bears have greater adipocity - or at least
greater lipid content in adipose tissue - than brown bears
[Cattet, Marc R L; Watts, Paul D; Sim, Jeong S (2001). Variation in
the chemical composition of adipose tissue of three species of ursids.
Canadian Journal of Zoology Vol:79 (8) Pages:1512-1517]
-Another pro-AAH paper from Verhaegen et al
[Verhaegen, Marc, Puech, Pierre-Francoise (2001). Hominid lifestyle
and diet reconsidered: paleo-environmental and comparative data. Human
Evolution Vol:15 Pages:175-186]
-I complete my masters thesis. The first study (afiak) specifically
into bipedal wading behaviour in Hominoidae - showed captive bonobos
were 92% bipedality in water, whilst less than 3% on land.
[Kuliukas, Algis Vincent (2001). Bipedal Wading in Hominoidae past and
present (Masters Thesis)]
-Evidence of early human settlements eating fish.
[Zohar, I; Dayan, T; Galili, E; Spanier, E (2001). Fish Processing
During the Early Holocene: A Taphonomic Case Study from Coastal
Israel. Journal of Archeological Science Vol:28 Pages:1041-1053]
-More evidence of chimpanzee wading (bipedalism) in Conkuoati
[Tutin, Coriline E G; Ancrenaz, Marc; Paredes, Jorge; Vacher-Vallas,
Myriam; Vidal, Carmen; Goossens, Benoit; Bruford, Michael W; Jamart,
Aliette (2001). Conservation biology framework of the release of
wild-born orphaned chimpanzees into the Conkuati reserve, Congo.
Conservation Biology Vol:15 (5) Pages:1247-1257]
2002
-Another pro-AAH paper from Marc,
[Verhaegen, Marc; Puech, Pierre-Francoise; Munro, Stephen (2002).
Aquarboreal Ancestors?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution Vol:17
Pages:212-217]
-Documentation of Australian indigenous people's ability to sustain
themselves on shellfish and food from mangrove swamps.
[Isaacs, Jennifer (2002). Bush Food. New Holland (Sydney)]
-Paper emphasising the nature of riparian woodland in flooding.
[Friedman, J M (2002). Extreme floods, channel change, and riparian
forests along ephemeral streams. Ecological Monographs Vol:72
Pages:409-425]
-Apparently the world record bipedality published for extant wild
apes, as observed in bonobos largely wading shallow pools.
[Myers Thompson, Jo A (2002). Bonobos of the Lukuru Wildlife Research
Project. In: Boesch, Christopher; Hohman, Gottfried; Marchant, Linda F
(eds.), (2002). Behavioural Diversity in Champanzees and Bonobos.
Cambridge (Cambridge)]
-Book to accompany the documentary by David Attenborough showing,
graphical images of bipedal wading in Conkuoati chimpanzees.
[Attenborough, David (2002). Life of Mammals. Domino (St Helier)]
-More omega 3 dietary implications in human evolution
[Broadhurst, C Leigh; Wang, Yiqun; Crawford, Michael A; Cunnane,
Stephen C; Parkington, John E; Schmidt, Walter F (2002).
Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food
resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens. Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology Vol:131 Pages:653-673]
-Another paper by Tobias calling on peers to be more open to this
hypothesis
[Tobias, Phillip V (2002). Some aspects of the multifaceted dependence
of early humanity on water. Nutrition and Health Vol:16 Pages:13-17]
-Another, even older, putative biped found in the centre of the outer
limits of Mega Lake Chad.
[Gee, Henry (2002). Toumaï, face of the deep. Nature Vol: Pages:]
-Pro-wading paper by Carsten Niemitz
[Niemitz, Carsten (2002). A Theory on the Evolution of the Habitual
Orthograde Human Bipedalism - The "Amphibisce Generalistheorie".
Anthropologischer Anzeiger Vol:60 Pages:3-66]
-More evidence of human diving ability
[Schagatay, Erika; Liner, Mats H; Runow, Elisabeth; Andersson, Johan
(2002). Diving response and arterial oxygen saturation during apnea
and exercise in breath-hold divers. Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol:93 Pages:882-886]
-More evidence that Orrorin was bipedal - pushes bipedal origins
further back in time to wetter climates.
[Senut, Brigitte; Pickford, Martin; Gommery, Dominique; Treil, Jacques
(2002). Bipedalism in Orrorin tugenensis revealed by its femora. C. R.
Palevol Vol:1 Pages:191-203]
-Tchadensis' habitat - buried amongst swamp pigs
[Vignaud, Patrick; Duranger, Phillippe; Mackaye, Hassane Taisso;
Likius, Andossa; Blondel, Cecile; Boisserie, Jean-Renaud; de Bonis,
Loius; Eisenmann, Vera; Etienne, Marie-Esther; Geraads, Denis; Guy,
Franck; Lehmann, Thomas; Lihoreau, Fabrice; Lopez-Martinez, Nieves;
Mourer-Chauvire, Cecile; Otero, Olga; Rage, Jean-Cluade; Schuster,
Mathieu; Viriot, Laurent; Zazzo, Antoine; Brunet, Michel (2002).
Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid
locality, Chad. Nature Vol:418 Pages:152-155]
-More about Tchadensis
[Wood, Bernard (2002). Hominid revelations from Chad. Nature Vol:418
Pages:133-135]
Brunet, Michel; Guy, Franck; Pilbeam, David; Mackaye, Hassane Taisso;
Likius, Andossa; Ahounta, Djimdoumalbaye; Beauvilain, Alain; Blondel,
Cecile; Bocherens, Herve; Boisserie, Jean-Renaud; de Bonis, Loius;
Coppens, Yves; Dejax, Jean; Denys, Christiane; Duranger, Phillippe;
Eisenmann, Vera; Fanone, Gongdibe; Fronty, Pierre; Lehmann, Thomas;
Lihoreau, Fabrice; Louchart, Antoine; Mahamat, Adoum; Otero, Olga;
Merceron, Gildas; Mouchelin, Guy; Campomanes, Pablo Palaez; Ponce de
Leon, Marcia; Rage, Jean-Cluade; Sapanet, Micel; Schuster, Mathieu;
Sudre, Jean; Tassy, Pascal; Valentin, Xavier; Vignaud, Patrick;
Viriot, Laurent; Zazzo, Antoine; Zollikofer, Chritoph (2002). A New
hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. Nature Vol:418
Pages:145-151
-First paper published specifically about wading in hominoidae
[Kuliukas, Algis Vincent (2002). Wading for Food: The Driving Force of
the Evolution of Bipedalism?. Nutrition and Health Vol:16
Pages:267-289]
2003
-Kingdon's book on bipedal origins places it very much in riparian
habitats, although the author argues that it took place on the
woodland/open interface rather than the woodland/river interface.
[Kingdon, Jonathan (2003). Lowly Origin. Princteton University Press
(Woodstock)]
-More evidence that oreopithecus was an upright moving animal on an
island habitat (although the author argues that it was driven by
postural feeding)
[Kohler, Meike; Moya-Sola, Salvador (2003). Understanding the
enigmatic ape Oreopithecus bambolii. In: Franzen, Jens Lorenz; Kohler,
Meike; Moya-Sola, Salvador (eds.), (2003). Walking Upright: Results
of the 13th International Senckenberg Conference at the Werner Reimers
Foundation, Bad Homberg v. d. H., and the Senckenberg Research
Institution, Frankfurt]
-More on Sahelanthropus
[Brunet, Michel (2003). Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene of
Chad), the earliest hominid. Nature Vol: Pages:]
-Paper showing the ability for groups of humans to become quickly more
adapted to moving through water.
[Gislen, Anna, Dacke, Marie, Kroger, Ronald H H, Abrahamsson, Maths,
Nilsson, Dan-Eric (2003). Superior Underwater Vision in a Human
Population of Sea Gypsies. Current Biology Vol:13 Pages:833-836]
-Evidence of early anatomically modern humans eating hippo flesh
[White, Tim D.; Asfaw, Berhane; DeGusta, David; Gilbert, Henry;
Richards, Gary D; Suwa, Glen; Howell, F. Clark (2003). Pleistocene
Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature Vol:423
Pages:742-747]
-Paper arguing that fat babies were driven by water-side lifestyle
[Cunnane, Stephen C; Crawford, Michael A (2003). Survival of the
fattest: fat babies were the key to evolution of the large human
brain. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Vol:136(1) Pages:17-26]
2004
-Paper documenting that primates can feed off crabs in magrove swamp
habitats
[Port-Carvallo, Marco; Ferran, Stephen F; Magalhaes, Celio (2004).
Predation of Crabs by Tufted Capuchins (Cebus apella) in Eastern
Amazonia. Folia Primatologica Vol:75(3) Pages:154]
-Jim Moore's 'magnus opus' finally properly critiqued. Most of his
(how many was it, four?) claims of 'false facts' turn out to be just
distortions.
http://www.riverapes.com/AAH/Arguments/JimMoore/JMHome.htm
-More evidence of primates feeding off aquatic plants
[Kumar, Awadesh; Solanki, G S (2004). A Rare Feeding Observation on
Water Lilies (Nymphaea alba) by the Capped Langur (Trachypithecus
pileatus). Folia Primatologica Vol:75(3) Pages:157]
-Langdon's Critique finally critiqued.
http://www.riverapes.com/AAH/Arguments/Langdon/LangdonCritique.pdf
I think that's a little more than 'something'.
Algis Kuliukas
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