Re: Bo Graslund "Early humans & their world" Routledge


"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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mclark wrote:
> "Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1124146347.228584.74990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> [..]
> >>
> >> I haven't heard of this book yet. Anybody knows more?
> >
> > Amazon.com lists the book. Also the University of Washington ordered
> > the book on 7-28-05, so it is not likely on their shelf yet. Want me to
> > request it interlibrary loan?
>
> GoHastings.com lists the book under the category "social evolution"
> and further says this under "synopsis":
>
> "In a discussion on the lack of coherent evolutionary explanation
> of bipedalism the author proposes a possible semi-aquatic
> environment for our ancestors as an alternative to the widely
> held '"savannah hypothesis." He gives further consideration to
> the evolutionary instruments used in creating bipedalism, as well
> as the modern human skull and face and the special human traits
> of curiosity and creativity.
> The author accesses research by the world's leading scholars
> of early hominid evolution and primate behavior to create a
> landmark exploration of human origins."
>
> Also by Graslund: The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology: Dating
> Methods and Dating Systems in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian
> Archaeology.
> ISBN: 0521322499
>
>
> Early Humans and Their World
> ISBN: 0415353440
>
> Bo Gräslund, Uppsala University: bo.graslund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I'll never understand this rush on the part of some folks
> to say ridiculous things in public. Is he convinced by the
> "evidence"? Where is this evidence? If it's the same
> thing we've seen in this NG, it strikes me as singularly
> *underwhelming* and certainly not grounds for coming
> out in print and allying yourself with Elaine Morgan, Algis,
> and Marco. I wonder if maybe a few links to Wet Ape
> websites would set this fella straight....


"world"s leading scholars ----landmark exploration of human origins"

Now I'm hooked, I've got to find out what the book's bibliography looks
like.

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You did notice they didn't claim he was one of those "worlds leading
scholars". They just claimed that he'd...examined and re-evaluated some of
their work.


deowll
the program is doing something flaky.

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>
> >> --Marc
> --
> "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
> 'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
> --Voltaire


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