Re: running without salt & water

On Apr 16, 2:04 pm, "Lee Olsen" <paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 16, 12:34 pm, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Op 16-04-2007 03:13, in artikel
1176686017.674623.238...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On Apr 15, 3:58 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://scienceblogs.com/bushwells/2007/01/marathon_runners_and_na_na_...

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistor...
1206/1206_samplings.html

Some people even go to the moon. Does that mean our ancestors lived there?

Do you find cut-marks on antelope bones on the moon from 2.6 Ma like
you find on the savanna ?

Nobody claims some people kill antelopes.

But the fact remains, early Homo was utilizing antelope bones on the
savanna 2.6 Ma, long before we got to the moon. So yes, our ancestors
lived on the savanna.

The point is that humans are superior to most typical savanna
dwellers:

"The earliest Eurasians preferentially occupied
grasslands and open scrub- and wood-lands, as in
East Africa. Homo ergaster/erectus in East Africa after 1.7 Ma is
associated with hot and dry conditions, and open
grasslands; its post-cranial anatomy, with its long
limbs was geared to long-distance walking across
open ground, and to heat dispersal through upright
posture (Dennell 2003:442)."

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"At Olduvai the Acheulean sites tend to lie along
the former stream channels away from the playa
lakes (Hay 1967a, 1976)."
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"Therefore, there is a tendency of Acheulian sites to appear away from
the lakes margins and mostly near fluvial contexts, in which stone
tools are widely predominant over faunal remains. A similar trend has
also been recorded for Olduvai Bed 11 Acheulian sites, and it is even
more pronounced during Bed III times (Hay 1976). This observation led
us to formulate what we have called the "ecological hypothesis of the
Early African Acheulian", which links this type of site to particular
ecological contexts (distant from lake margins)....." Dominguez-
Rodrigo et al. 2001:291
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he walked -> his femur -> superior
We -> walking -> give birth [Apparently transexual operation]
He -> outrun lions [Oops, nuther transexual operation]

Yeah I can just see the pregnant women keeping ahead of hungry lions,
prancing along steadily through the savanna woodlands. Climb a tree?
Why no, she just keeps running along, confidently knowing that she
will eventually outpace the hungry lion in a few hours. Luckily, about
every 2 miles, she comes across a bottle of gatorade and salt pills...

More realistic: Hominids of all shapes and sizes moved inland through
various periods, ones becoming more arboreal or quadrupedal through
time leave extant descendants (PG), with scattered rough tools. Our
ancestors Homo entered inland via boats with trade, becoming better
adapted to inland conditions through time, as seen in similar behavior
as they entered other island and continental areas.
DD

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