Re: Final Solution of the Aquatic Question

mclark wrote:

> What if they weren't bipedal *due largely to wading*?
> And how can you tell?

Read the first post of this thread.

> And what about all that other incipient bipedalism
> in the other primates?

And what about incipient bipedalism in goats?

Wading humans still prey on shellfish in shallow,
clear waters and they do it more efficiently than
other species.
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    ... no matter what evidence I ... driven hominid bipedalism, the evidence in extant apes for wading is ... strongly causative (92% bipedality associated with wading in the only ...
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  • Re: Bipedalism in different substrates
    ... phobia that you claim forced proto-hominins into a pattern of bipedal ... >that the fact that quadrupedal apes move bipedally in water, ... But you claim they weren't wading for hours at a time, ... >selection of traits that would aid terrestrial bipedalism. ...
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