AAT = littoral dispersal (Re: skinny runners - Jim's Crocodile Fable

"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> richardparker01@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > I don't go as far as Marc in connecting every bone or tool found near
water as proving people actually lived in it,

This is a total misrepresentation I what I'm saying.
Again:
- Our scenario is based on *comparative* data, see below.
- The fossil/archeol.data nowhere contradict our scenario, to the contrary:
there's every reason to suppose the "fast" dispersal of Plio-Pleistocene
Homo went along the coasts. That there were a lot of inland sidebranches
along rivers etc. is only to be suspected.

Some time after the Homo-Pan split 7-4 Ma, our ancestors were seaside
omnivores who collected coconuts, fruits, bird eggs, turtles, shell-,
crayfish, algae... This view is based on the behavior, anatomy & physiology
of living humans compared to other animals, and it explains many typically
Homo traits (not seen in apes or australopiths) a lot better than dry
savanna scenarios do: brain size, diving skills, breathing control,
vocality, small mouth & chewing muscles, tongue bone descent, longer airway,
projecting nose, reduced sense of smell, handiness, tool use, late puberty,
long legs, body alignment, reduced climbing, fatness, fur loss, high needs
of water, sodium, iodine & poly-unsaturated fatty acids.

Marc Verhaegen
http://www.onelist.com/community/AAT
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT1
AAT = Plio-Pleistocene Homo littoral diaspora


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