Re: linear build
- From: "Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:39:10 +0100
"Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
Agreed. Incredibly, the standard view is
that for the first few million years hominids
lead a life indistinguishable from that of
their 'chimp' ancestors: they exploited
the identical same food in exactly the
same way; they slept in trees (in the dark
hours: 12 out of the 24) in exactly the same
way; they spent about the same number
of daylight hours in trees as chimps;
their behaviour on the ground was almost
exactly the same as chimps; they coped
with predators in exactly the same way, and,
above all, the mother/infant relationships
were exactly the same as chimps. (In fact,
this last item is not considered, and
therefore never articulated -- since the
species is invariably thought to consist
only of adult males -- but nevertheless,
it is still necessarily a basic part of the
theory.)
> So we can hardly blame them for trying since conventional
> theorists have all but admitted that they are completely stumped.
Nearly all the non-conventional theorists
(including the self-proclaimed greatest
of all time) follow the same 'thinking'.
And they rarely imagine that they are
stumped, but they are -- just as badly.
Paul.
.
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