linear build
- From: "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 26 May 2005 22:01:53 -0700
mclark wrote:
> "Algis Kuliukas" <algis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1117153231.068882.287310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> [Jois points out some simple things to Algis']
> >
> > I have never claimed that it was impossible for chimps to swim, just
> > that anybody with two eyes and a modicum of objectivity can see that
> > humans swim much better than chimps and that this is not purely due to
> > our culture.
>
> You know, I think you're right for once, Algis. It doesn't have
> anything to do with culture (other than it's a learned activity). It's
> more related to the simple fact that humans are consumate
> bipeds and thus have a better build for it. Just ask your friend
> and mentor, Marco. He'll tell you all about "linear build".
Right. And we could speculate ad-infinitum about all the behaviors
that are facilitated by a linear build. Using very poor judgement and
faulty logic Marc and Algis have jumped to the conclusion that this
linear build, which is evident very early in hominid evolution, is the
result of a shift to aquatic/littoral habitat. Humans are the only
species that use their bodies to communicate with each other. Humans
are also the only species to employ projectiles to achieve communal
territorialistic ends. Humans are not aquatic/littoral. It only makes
sense that the linear build is the result of a lifestyle that involved
symbolic communication and/or projectile defense of communal territory
rather than a shift to aquatic/littoral habitat.
> Then
> he'll say something goofy about an alleged littoral diaspora and
> finally end with a link to some obscure yahoo group filled
> with really strange folks.
As stupid as AAT surely is it is stupider still to suggest that hominid
adaptations happened as a result of no shift in habitat/behavior at
all. So we can hardly blame them for trying since conventional
theorists have all but admitted that they are completely stumped.
Jim
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