Re: human ancestors never passed through a knuckle-walking phase


"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jun 2, 8:06 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/2lv228

This forced them
to go down to the ground in order to move between trees.


Yep, savannah theory back....thanks for the nice article Marc.

A fuller quote is:

Around 15 million years ago the tropical forests which once covered East
Africa began to break up, and although the forest sometimes grew back
temporarily, eventually trees became separated and further apart, preventing
our ape ancestors from swinging from one tree to the next. This forced them
to go down to the ground in order to move between trees.

It's no surprise that Olsen thinks this "nice".
It's evolutionary illiteracy. Not is it any
surprise that this sort of junk comes from
Robin Crompton.

"Global warming" is happening at present.
(The debate is only about whether the cause
is human disturbance or merely a routine cycle
in the sun's activity.) In many places trees are
becoming 'more separated' -- and the like.

Anyone heard of new species evolving?


Paul.


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