Jim Moore: Flores man could not have survived predators

From: richard01 (richardparker01_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: 2 Nov 2004 01:13:26 -0800

If you look at Jim Moore's notorious anti-aquatic ape theory site:

http://www.aquaticape.org/predators.html

you will find a quite persuasive, but half-baked theory that humans
could not live in the sea because of the problems of shark and
crocodile attack.

In the Philippines, the Badjao sea gypsies live in or on the sea all
their lives. In fact, the real risk of shark or crocodile attack is
far less than equally life-threatening things like lightning or a
coconut falling on your head.

If you believe Mr Moore's armchair reasoning, you will also realise
that the tiny Homo floresiesis could not possibly have survived in an
environment with sabre-toothed elephants, Komodo Dragons (and even
larger varanid lizards) let alone other predators on Flores.

But they did.

Richard
My weblog Seashore Foraging & Fishing is at
http://coconutstudio.blogspot.com

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