Re: Alternating gait

From: Quitten McKrappen (catwoma_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: 14 Nov 2004 21:08:23 -0800

Rich Travsky <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message news:<4196D946.683A0A33@hotmMOVEail.com>...
> Algis Kuliukas wrote:
> >
> > jae@ucdavis.edu (Jason Eshleman) wrote in message news:<b7af43cb.0411110831.23bad9aa@posting.google.com>...
> > [...]
> > Human bipedalism seems to have evolved in two phases. The first one
> > was not to do with energy efficiency, the second phase was. The
> > simplest explanation which addresses both of these is that wading
> > through shallow water resulted in some hominoidae moving bipedally in
> > the first place. Later, when some of these became less arboreal, long
> > distance locomotion along beaches and/or dried up river/lake beds
> > and/or tracking herds of bovids on very hard, relatively
> > vegetation-free grasslands provided another scenario where the second
> > phase is likely to have evolved.

> "vegetation-free grasslands"
>
> heh
>
> heh heh
>
>
> Hahahehahahahahh gasp wheeze hahahahahaa oh lordee

Richard, think of "vegetation-free grasslands as a diet plan for
overweight grazers. "It's healthy vegetarian dining without all of
that annoying roughage."

lovingly,
Quitten

[Posts on this newsgroup have a certain anarchic quality to them.
Sort of like putting a 4 year-old in the driver's seat of a Corvette
and telling the child to drive from LA to New York City, alone].

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