Re: Wading Apes


Algis Kuliukas wrote:

> . . . moving through water
> is the most primatologically evidence-based, paleoecologically
> plausible and commonsensically simple extra factor yet seen.

Algis, you constantly expose yourself as being ignorant of evolutionary
theory. If you want your wading ape silliness to begin to be taken
seriously then you have to explain why apes that take a bipedal stance
while walking in water would survive and reproduce in higher numbers
than apes that avoided water altogether or that waded quadrupedally.
Another thing too. Any such hypothesis should also give us hints as to
the selective origins of other hominid characteristics. IOW, what is
there about a wading lifestyle that anticipates the origins of other
hominid characteristics (sociality, communicativeness, intelligence,
etc.) better than a non wading lifestyle?

Of course we all know the reason why you don't take such an approach.
There is absolutely no evidence to support such. (No, Algis, your 37
seconds of bipedally wading apes is not evidence of a wading ape
surviving and/or reproducing in higher numbers than a non-wading ape.)
Therefore any such hypothesizing would be immediately recognizable as
blatant speculation. This is so obvious I doubt even somebody as dumb
as you can't recognize it. So the only thing left for you is constant
whining.

Jim

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