Re: Savanna nonsense


JAE wrote:
> Algis Kuliukas wrote:
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> > Why is it laughable? Fatter people *are* more buoyant than thinner
> > people. As long as the person is conscious, they are likely to benefit
> > from that extra buoyancy in terms of survivability. (= selection.) A
> > human infant is much more likely to survive a near drowning incident,
> > simply because of its far greater adipocity, compared to a chimp
> > infant. A human mother is far more likely to successfully attempt such
> > a rescue than a chimp mother, partly for the same kind of reasons. Why
> > do you find such simple, plausible, demonstable, testable and, most
> > importantly, clearly adaptive scenarios for greater adipocity in water
> > so funny? And what is your favoured alternative?
>
> The words "far more likely" (as in far more likely to successfully
> attempt...) imply a probability, though it's a probability that is
> based on your pronouncements and nothing more. That's pretty funny.
> It's pretty funny that someone who claims to be pursuing a PhD can't
> tell the difference between evidence and his own imagination.

Mr Pedantic strikes again.

Considering that humans have a rather better record than chimpanzees in
terms of swimming (based on evidence, not imagination) and that humans
are fatter than chimpanzees (evidence, not imagination) especially
females and infants (evidence, not imagination) the assessment that
human mothers would be far more likely to successfully attempt a rescue
of their infant from water than chimpanzees is based on evidence, not
imagination.

Besides, anecdotal evidence for humans rescuing their children from
water is rather massive. Anecdotal evidence of chimpanzees doing so is
nil.

Once again Jason's obsessively stubborn anti-AAH agenda prevents him
from just accepting this kind of evidence and its possible implications
in human evolution. Instead he has to personally attack the person
offering it.

Algis Kuliukas

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