Re: Q for Lee O, desert running

Paul Crowley wrote:
"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1169137014.222756.251740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/
Click on 'samplings'
"And the hunters' tracking skills must be exquisite; finding and
following the quarry every time it bolts out of sight or mingles with a
herd is no easy task-teamwork helps. But done right, Liebenberg says,
persistence hunting is so effective that it may have helped select for
the excellent thermoregulatory system, bipedal posture, and long
strides that we all possess."

This is unbelievably ignorant. So it is no
surprise at all that Olsen agrees with it.
The number of logical mistakes both in
this one short paragraph (and in the rest
of the article) must each come close to
the record for PA -- and that's a standard
hard to achieve.


<snip rantings that modern humans can't run down animals>

ROTFL. Crowley is going to lecture the group today on ingnorance and
logic??? Here is a short list of his logic in action, which amount to
nothing more than a jihad against science.

1) chimps can't dig,
2) rocks turn to dust on an ocean beach in a matter of months,
3) that nothing grows in permafrost,
4) that Neandertals didn't hunt,
5) that there were no lions in Pleistocene Europe,
6) imagines Lucy buried her dead,
7) that animals weren't the norm on cave walls in Pleistocene Europe,
8) that Neandertals lived only near the temperate coasts.
9) that Neandertals hibernate (http://tinyurl.com/3cphxn)
(one wonders why Neandertals would need to hibernate when they only
lived in the temperate areas of the coast according to Crowley, but
that's the kind of ignorance and logic you can expect from the pub)

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