Re: Homo & molluscs


Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> "Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1126445258.693636.132680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > "Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:1126410509.185813.147290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > > Yes, inform a bit. Give a list of furless mammals. Any reason
> why
> > > you believe human ancestors were an exception??
> > >
> > > > > > Since we are the one and only Homo, yes, we certainly do have a
> lot of
> > > exceptions.
> > >
> > > > > ?? No, there are no exceptions: what is true for other anmals is
> also
> > > true for humans.
> > >
> > > > Oh yeah? Did Kanzi get a diploma from Harvard?
> > >
> > > Sigh. Too difficult apparently.
> >
> >
> > Of course it was too difficult for him to get a diploma, that's what I
> > just said.
> >
> >
> > Or just trying to be funny?
> >
> >
> > No, you were.
> >
> >
> > > I'll try again, in simple words:
> > > If a rule applies for all animals, what makes you think it does not
> apply
> > > for humans?
> >
> >
> > Good, all animals need oxygen, did early Homo fly like birds?
>
> Never had much logica, do you?
>
> If all animals who need oxygen, flew, you had an argument.

And if *all* birds swam and dived, you would have an argument.


>
> All mammals that are furless & have a lot of SC fat spend a lot of time in
> water.

Well, we are not all mammals, we are us. If lack of fur and sc fat had
anything to do with time in the water for us, we would have stayed
there. You have callouses for running on the desert, but you do not
have flippers.



> Okidoki?
>
> Now please waste your own time.

You are wasting your own time.

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