Re: Radio: The Scars of Evolution (Aquatic Ape Theory)

Again:
Vernix caseosa is only seen in humans & seals.
That's what seals have to do with it.
They're the only animals apart from humans that have vernix caseosa.
Okidoki?
Why on earth don't you inform a bit before saying something?
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"Rick Wagler" <taxidea3@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> But 'this most modest idea' is merely a cover
>>> for the usual nonsense. Much of the program
>>> was about the greasy covering often found
>>> on pre-term human infants. Apparently it's
>>> also found on harbour seal infants. So we
>>> have 'proof' that humans once lived in much
>>> the same way as seals.
>>>
>>> This was not stated, of course. But that
>>> was the clear implication. The bone-headed
>>> nonsense is always there, hiding just below
>>> the surface, using its cover of a meaningless,
>>> banal 'pretend-scientific' theory of 'more
>>> contact with water than chimps'.
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>> So what's your explanation of the vernix, Paul?
>>
>> Algis
>
> What the pediatricians say it is - an anti-microbial
> defense for the immunologically naive fetus, perhaps....
> or to rephrase, what the hell do the seals have to do
> with anything?
>
> Rick Wagler
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