Re: Leslie Aiello's review of Cunnane's Survival of the Fattest


"Rick Wagler" <taxidea3@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ricky snipped:

Aiello's "critique" is only based on her false belief that Cunnane situates
the shoreline past "prior to Australopithecus". Apparently she hasn't read,
eg, p.239: "If, as Hardy & Morgan claim, the semi-aquatic period ended 4 or
5 Ma, it was over before the substantial brain expansion had even begun."
Why doens't she inform a bit before trying to say something
sensible on the subject? Why hasn't she read what leading PAs wrote on the
subject? eg, Ph.Tobias & Chr.Stringer.

Aiello should at least know
that AAT has nothing to do with apiths, but everything with shoreline
dispersals of Homo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT It's not difficult
to
falsify non-existing hypotheses. Very unscientific attitude IMO.

Why should she or anyone else know that.? ...

Because, my little boy:
1) it's in Stephen Cunnane's book "Survival of the Fattest" World Scientific
2005. Aiello was writing a review of this book, remember? She
misrepresented what Stephen said, okidoki?
2) it has been published in a lot of scientific journals. If you don't know
what you're talking about, it's better to keep silent, don't you agree?

FYI, Wagler:
This is what we're saying:
Our ancestors sometime after the Homo/Pan split relied partly on aquatic
resources:
- Homo: AAT, contrary to what some PAs still think, has nothing to do with
australopiths,
- littoral: it's about our ancestors having been shoreline dwellers
(coast/lake/river-side),
- diaspora: Homo remains 1.8 Ma are found in places as far as Ain Hanech
(Algeria), Dmanisi (Georgia), Mojokerto (Java) etc.
AAT simply says that these people got there along shorelines, not over dry
plains as uninformed & biased people like you still believe.
Leading PAs such as Ph.Tobias
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm & Chr.Stringer
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003982.html now agree with a waterside past
& shoreline dispersals, didn't you know? :-)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT


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