Re: Savanna nonsense


"Pauline M Ross" <pmross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:43:37 GMT, pete <pfiland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >AFAICT AAT still hasn't been defined.

Don't be silly, Pete http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT
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>
> It hadn't been defined formally, no. However, recently Algis came up
> with this broad definition of it:
>
> "The hypothesis that water has acted as an agent of selection in the
> evolution of humans more than it has in the evolution of our ape
> cousins. And that, as a result, many of the major physical differences
> between humans and the other apes are best explained as adaptations to
> moving (e.g. wading, swimming and/or diving) better through various
> aquatic media and from greater feeding on resources that might be
> procured from such habitats."
>
> >The sense I get from reading this group is that
> >you support AAT if
> >you think that water was more important in human evolution
> >than the person that you're talking to does.
>
> Possibly :-) But well done for getting any 'sense' from this group; I
> would have said it's almost entirely nonsense at the moment.
>
> --
> Pauline Ross


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