Re: endurance running nonsense


AAT =

* 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)

Also, I have Cliff Hanging Aquatic Ape Theory (CHAAT), which
assumes that we originated on a sea cliffs. -- Mario

:-)
We can always produce theories, Mario, but they have to be based upon
evidence. What other animals cliff-hang? --Marc

What other animal, except anteater, eats ants? There is no place for
two animals in one niche. So, we can say that the lack of animals in that
niche proves the theory, if you like, : ).

Unique things can't prove anything.
All ant/termite-eaters have reduced teeth, suction feeding, long round
tongues etc.

BTW, baboons use kopjes in savanna, and geladas use cliffs.

Yes, and both are very different from us, don't you think? Any parallels you
see?

Cliffs
are climbing objects, and we are primates. You have tree hyraxes, and rocky
hyraxes. We have tree primates, and I say that we also have cliff primates.
As a matter of fact, the one primate that doesn't climb trees (even if
comfronted by predators) uses cliffs. There is no reason why some primate
wouldn't explore this empty niche, because this is a primate theritory,
CLIMBING surface. Primates are climbers. -- Mario

But no cliff-hangers.

--Marc
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Fil/Verhaegen_Human_Evolution.html

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