Re: When Burial Begins

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:31:52 -0800, Paul Crowley <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1162262447.522035.148900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Your problem IS the imaginary scenarios.
Standard PA does not have one -- it has
a few tiny bits which don't fit together in
any remotely reasonable way. Were
hominids on the savanna? If so, when?
And what did they eat?

PA has so many scenarios I doubt if one person could read all of them
in a lifetime.

Quote ONE -- which sets out (even provisional)
answers to the principal questions, such as
(a) the reasons for bipedalism;
(b) the method of defence by early and late
hominids against nocturnal predators,
(c) how early hominids competed with their
'chimp' cousins;
(d) when, why and how hominids stopped
sleeping in trees and began sleeping on the
ground;
(e) why -- with the success of their ancestors
all over Africa -- there were not billions of
living hominids in Africa within historical
times;
(f) how language (and other advanced
culture) developed in tiny peripatetic bands.

http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove/pliocats.htm


What did they eat? Desert adapted antelope. C4 grass or the animals
that ate C4 grass.

So early hominids chased antelope -- and were
as good at it as lions, cheetahs, dogs, etc.?

Hominids ate grass?

No, silly, they ate mice that ate grass!

[The rest is too foolish for even me to respond to.]


Lorenzo L. Love
http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove

"...the only theory I've heard that explains how australopithecines (or later hominids) survived on the savanna is the PPCT..."
Paul Crowley
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