Re: Final Solution of the Aquatic Question
- From: "Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:15:42 +0200
"Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
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> Algis Kuliukas wrote:
....
> > > >Marc Verhaegen wrote: Sensible talk, Andrew, but not the final
solution. I agree apiths might have been parttime waders in swamp forests,
wetlands etc. But this has nothing to do with AAT s.s., which is about our
ancestors: about Homo, not about apes or apiths.
> > >somebody tried to "answer": You believe that apiths are not our
ancestors. I believe that they are our ancestors.
Whatever. This is irrelevant. The man who wrote this isn't following.
Again:
AAT is about *Homo*, ie, Homo after the H/P split.
AAT is *not* about apiths.
AAT is *not* about apes.
Repeat: AAT is about Homo.
Okidoki?
Finally understood?
About Homo.
Again: this is AAT:
AAT says that 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... The theory (based on the behavior, anatomy &
physiology of living humans compared to other animals) 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...
In the fossil & archeological record, this waterside episode
is reflected in the Plio-Pleistocene dispersals of Homo along the Indian
Ocean & African coasts: 1.8-Ma Homo remains come from Algeria, Iran, Kenya,
Georgia, Java... always near lakes or seas (R.Dennell 2003 JHE 45:421); in
spite of sea level changes (Ice Ages), Homo much more than australopith
remains have been found amid shells, corals & barnacles, from 1.8 to 0.1 Ma
(throughout the Pleistocene), in coasts all over the Old World (Mojokerto,
Terra Amata, Table Bay, Eritrea...), even on islands that could only be
reached by sea (Flores 0.8 Ma
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm).
Marc Verhaegen
http://www.onelist.com/community/AAT
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