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

:-D Thanks, Richard.

Sorry, Lee, I haven't much time these days. Yes, please: I don't know
anything on the book, so if you want to have a look at it, please let us
know what you think about it, eg, whether it's serious stuff worth to be
read (by PAs, AATers or antiAATers), or whether it's stuff à la Jois.

-Marc
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The answers to Marc's post show the problems inherent in this forum
very well.


2. Lee Olsen Aug 16, 12:52 am

"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? "

.........This is the guy who can get any book he wants, free, so take up
his offer.


3. jois Aug 16, 1:01 am show options

"Wasn't that book listed under "Wishful Thinking"? "


Jois


..........No comment

4. McLark Aug 16, 1:55 am

GoHastings.com lists the book under the category "social evolution"
and further says this under "synopsis":

..........who's under synopsis, McLark - you or the book?

"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

......This is an attempt to show that a specialist in early 19C Swedish
archaeology has no expertise to show in any other field of that very
narrow study.

Rubbish. Charles Darwin was an expert on earthworms, pigeons, and
barnacles.


Early Humans and Their World
ISBN: 0415353440


Bo Grslund, Uppsala University: bo.grasl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


I'll never understand this rush on the part of some folks
to say ridiculous things in public


........ who's he talking about? ...himself?


"Where is this evidence?" ........... Usual rhetorical question, set
up to be answered immediately by:

"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....

........probably not, but he'd certainly learn a lot more than he could
here, in this vicious little chatshop.



5. Lee Olsen Aug 16, 2:52 am

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


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

..........Is it peer-reviewed? Do I need 'scholars' to tell me what I
should think?


6. deowll Aug 16, 2:59 am


"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. "



"the program is doing something flaky".


....... what program deowll? - the PA one in your head, or the thing
that takes your typings and sends them round the world?


"If you set a billion chimpanzees in front of a billion typewriters you
still wouldn't get the first words of Genesis or Hamlet. (Anon)"

.............But you did make a very good point - he credits other
"scientist's" previous pronouncements.

That's known as 'citation' and normally fills up at least a third of
any formal scientific publication


7. Rich Travsky Aug 16, 7:08 am

"Ed Conrad and Ted Holden."


...........I'll have to ponder this one.

8. Rich Travsky Aug 16, 7:07 am


"That will be news to everyone in the field..."


...........And this


regards

Richard



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