Re: savanna evasions (Re: Is Oreopithicus the Aquatic Ape Link?

From: Marc Verhaegen (fa204466_at_skynet.be)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:44:11 +0100

Another dry aper who is too stupid to know the meaning of "possibly"...

"Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
news:4218FA69.DA61B35A@hotmMOVEail.com...
> rmacfarl wrote:
>>
>> Marc Verhaegen wrote:
>> > "rmacfarl" <rmacfarl@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
>> > news:1108026965.227074.77610@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> > > Someone should mark down 16 March 2003 as a red-letter day in SAP
>> history.
>> > > It was on this day that 2 of the prime proponents of the Aquatic
>> Ape
>> > > Hypotheses, Algis Kuliukas and Marc Verhaegen, both acknowledged
>> publicly
>> > > that the Laetoli Footprint Tuff represents negative evidence of
>> their
>> > > hypotheses.
>> >
>> > Ridiculous fool. I did not do such thing.
>>
>> Oh yes you did:
>>
>> "
>> Newsgroups: sci.anthropology.paleo
>> From: "Marc Verhaegen" <fa204...@skynet.be> - Find messages by this
>> author
>> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:34:41 +0100
>> Local: Sun, Mar 16 2003 2:34 pm
>> Subject: Re: Algis Kukiukas "Wading for food" Nutr.Health 16:267
>> ...
>> ...
>> I guess you're right here (what about Garusi?). Perhaps the Laetoli
>> population was not aquarboreal any more, or simply ran away from the
>> vulcanic eruption. Whatever, this only exception you could find of
>> possibly
>> non-wetland apiths doesn't say that apiths had not the aquarboreal
>> early
>> hominid ancestors that we predicted on comparative grounds. Other
>> afarensis
>> (Hadar) did live in wet forested areas & had traces of aquatic plant
>> feeding
>> (Puech).
>>
>> Marc Verhaegen
>> ...
>> "
>>
>> In your own words: the "only exception you could find of possibly
>> non-wetland apiths"...
>
> Now now, Marc doesn't like it when he's reminded of his own words.
>
> I delight in reposting where I got him to admit the LCA could've been
> savanna adapted ;)
>
>> [...]

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