Re: Australopithecines could not run bipedally

On 21 Sep 2005 04:36:41 -0700, "quercophile"
<ed.byron.adams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>James Michael Howard wrote:
>
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>> I guess it must be true if you say it is. However, I think a couple
>> of slow walking Apiths with long spikes can drive predators away from
>> carcasses. Its 100% true that I saw it on TV, humans with spikes,
>> that is. Let the predators do the hard work and take their kills;
>> pretty smart and pretty easy.
>
>The open question on this analogy is whether Apiths brain was big
>enough to support such complicated cooperative behavior.

I do not see one, two, or three Apiths all in an attack / defense with
some long poles driven by hunger being "complicated cooperative
behavior" and requiring large brains. Dogs attack in packs without
large brains; I imagine they would use large sticks if they could.
.

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