Re: Was the African strandlopers homo erectus or sapiens?

From: Marc Verhaegen (fa204466_at_skynet.be)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:52:59 +0100

If sapiens was originally a strandloper, erectus was originally a
strandduiker. H.ergaster-erectus c 1.8 Ma has been found from Algeria to
Java: no doubt they spread along the coasts - why wouldn't they have dived
(parttime) for seefood? Pachyostosis (thick bones as in erectus) is only
seen AFAWK in slow-diving mammals that feed on sessile prey (shellfish,
seaweeds): walruses, seacows, Odobenocetops, Kolponomos & some Thalassocnus
spp. We must have had diving ancestors: how else did we get the fine control
of the airway entrances which preadapted to speech?

Marc Verhaegen

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"Happy'Cam'per" <s@c.c.c> wrote in message
news:co7d58$f7b$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...
>
> I would imagine they were the latter (sapiens). FYI roughly translated,
> 'Strandlopers' is Afrikaans for Beach walkers.......
> --
> "In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
> antisymmetric,
> second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."
>
> "Knullruffs" <Knullruffs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d8beac55.0411250858.48309acf@posting.google.com...
> > Was the African strandlopers homo erectus or sapiens? I've searched
> > the net and havn't been able to find any conclusive facts.
>
>

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