Re: Terra firma hominids

"nickname" <alas_my_loves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lee, I've never heard of a savanna with tide pools. Are you including
the Indian-Atlantic-Pacific-Southern Oceanic realm as part of the
Savanna? If so, I agree with everything you've stated thus far,
especially whales, and manatees as well, everybody knows manatees are
savanna animals, they're in Africa for petes sake.
Speaking of UFOs, why is Earth called the water planet, while Mars
isn't? Doesn't Mars derive from the same root word as
mire/moor/marine/maritime etc. I think even the Ituri pygmies refer to
water as mar or mai or so, and they're rather far from the world's
oceans. Anyway, if the description of savanna includes the world's
beaches, then obviously savanna is the ticket. I have no problem with
that. Earth: the savanna planet. Oh yeah. DD

Lee thinks everything is savanna. FHI: When we compare the
behavior-anatomy-physiology-DNA of living humans with chimps & other
animals, it's clear that our ancestors (genus Homo) once had shoreline
adaptations: collection of coconuts, fruits, bird eggs, turtles, shell-,
crayfish, algae etc. explains unique Homo traits (not seen in apes or
australopiths) much better than plains-dwelling: our large brain, our diving
skills & limited breath control, well-developed vocality, small mouth &
reduced chewing muscles, tongue bone descent, longer airway & projecting
nose, poor sense of smell, extreme handiness & tool use, late puberty, long
legs, aligned body, poor climbing, fur loss, fatness, high needs of water,
sodium, iodine & poly-unsaturated fatty acids etc. Homo & Pan split ~6-5
Ma. Homo populations apparently dispersed along lakes, coasts & rivers, in
savannas & elsewhere: in spite of sea level fluctuations (difficult
fossilisation), Homo tools/fossils 2.5-0.1 Ma are found near Rift valley
lakes, Indian Ocean & African coasts: Mojokerto, Dungo V Baia Farta, Terra
Amata, Table Bay, Eritrea etc., even on islands like Flores
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm = all savanna...

--Marc Verhaegen
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Symposium.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT



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