Re: human infants swim after 3 minutes, but run after 3 years. (Re: endurance running?

From: Marc Verhaegen (fa204466_at_skynet.be)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:04:53 +0200

Just found this
http://www.infantswim.com/gallery/gallery_az1.htm
It's incredible that people who see these photos keep claiming that our
ancestors could not have been littoral.

--Marc
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"Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@skynet.be> wrote in message
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> "mikelist" <mutterer@notime> wrote in message
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>>>>>Note that an older chimpanzee was also tested and, just like older
>>>>>human infants, was inactive when placed in the water. Note too that
>>>>>this study found that "at no time did any baby show himself capable of
>>>>>raising his head above the water level for the purpose of breathing".
>
>> I would suggest that you make too much of 'capable of raising his head
>> above the water level for the purpose of breathing'. It's well known that
>> newborn humans need to have their head and neck supported for some period
>> of time, and I rather more than suspect you already knew that. There
>> exists a much easier method of clearing the surface for breathing, so no
>> reason to raise its head exists. Capable of surviving in water is not
>> swimming for swimming for locomotion or utilitarian travel, but it could
>> have served to preserve a baby that had been dislodged from its mother's
>> grasp in ages past,(perhaps for a significant period of time waist deep
>> water was the safest place for humans to give birth). It is a feat that
>> most primate newborns would fail at. I'm not sure how much swimming
>> babies really do to prove any aspect of AAT, but they certainly don't
>> contradict it.
>
> :-) Well-said, Mike. Incredible that they're so closed-minded that they
> don't even see the possibility.
>
> --Marc
>

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