Re: Verhaegen Strives to Emulate Conventional Vagueness


<claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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CD:
Your hypothesis completely fails to predict many of the adaptations
that are so plainly evident in our species, like language, cooperation,
mob-oriented attack strategies.

My boy, let's analyse this ridiculous sentence:

1) "Your hypothesis": how could somebody who doesn't even know the
difference between australopithecines & Homo know what "my hypothesis" is??

2) For my hypotheses about speech & language origins, please inform:
1988 "Aquatic ape theory and speech origins: a hypothesis" Speculations in
Science and Technology 11:165-171.
1995 "Aquatic ape theory, speech origins, and brain differences with apes
and monkeys" Medical Hypotheses 44:409-413.
1995 "Aquatic ape theory, the brain cortex, and language origins" ReVision
18:34-38.
1997 "In den Beginne was het Water" Hadewijch, Antwerp.
1998 "Human/ape brain differences and speech origins":128-129 in MA Raath, H
Soodyall, D Barkhan, KL Kuykendall & PV Tobias eds "Abstracts of
Contributions to the Dual Congress" Univ.Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
And with Stephen Munro:
1999 "Bipeds, tools and speech" Mother Tongue V:161-168.
2000 "The origins of phonetic abilities: a study of the comparative data
with reference to the aquatic theory":236-240 in J-L Dessalles & L
Ghadakpour eds "The Evolution of Language Proceedings" Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.
2004 "Possible preadaptations to speech - a preliminary comparative
approach" Human Evolution 19:53-70.

3) Cooperation: chimps work together sometimes, humans work together
sometimes, wolves work together frequently. What is your problem??

4) Mob-oriented attack strategies are plainly evident in a lot of bird
species, and perhaps they are plainly evident in your behaviour, but not in
mine.



MV:
AAT = Homo littoral diaspora:
CD:
IOW, by your own admission AAT has nothing to do with the evolutionary
transition from apes to hominids. Right? (Why do I know I won't get a
response to this question.)
MV:
Claudius, don't you even know that hominids are apes??
CD: Answer my question you fruitcake,

My dear boy, how can one answer idiotic questions like: How do you go from
Belgium to Flanders? Flanders is part of Belgium, just as hominids are part
of apes. Got it a bit?? Sigh.

I hope you at least know that AAT has nothing to do with some transition
from early apes to hominids:
AAT has to do with why Pan & Homo (both hominids) differ.
Please inform a bit, see, eg, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT :

AAT = shoreline adaptations of the genus Homo
* Aquatic Ape Theory of human evolution (original term Morgan 1982)
* Aquarboreal Apes Theory of Mio-Pliocene apes (aqua=water, arbor=tree)
* Amphibious Ancestors Theory of Plio-Pleistocene Homo (AAT strict sense)
AAT s.s. is based on the behavior-anatomy-physiology-DNA of living humans
vs. chimps & other animals. Sea/lake-side ancestors collecting coconuts,
fruits, bird eggs, turtles, shell-, crayfish, algae etc. explains unique
Homo traits (not seen in apes or australopiths) better than plains- or
forest-dwelling : brain size, diving skills, breath control, vocality, small
mouth & chewing muscles, tongue bone descent, longer airway, projecting
nose, poor sense of smell, 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 ~6-4 Ma. 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. (18 km sea crossing to reach Flores
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm ). Most likely, Homo
populations dispersed along coasts & rivers, in savannas & elsewhere.
* Max Westenhöfer 1942 "Der Eigenweg des Menschen" Mannstaede
* Alister Hardy 1960 "Was Man more aquatic in the past?" NS 7:624
* Maggie Roede cs. 1991 "The Aquatic Ape: Fact or Fiction?" Souvenir
* Elaine Morgan 1997 "The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis" Souvenir London
* Marc Verhaegen cs. 2002 "Aquarboreal ancestors?" TREE 17:212
* Stephen Cunnane 2005 "Survival of the Fattest" World Scientific
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Symposium.html
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Verhaegen.html


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