Re: Bipedality

"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It was vital for hominids to keep large
cats (and other large predators) away
from their home base -- where they had
infants and children, who would have
been exceedingly vulnerable, especially
to night attacks.


They protected their dead but not the living???
ROFL. Paul is the same guy who argued that Lucy types buried their
dead and were smart enough to protect the bodies with thorns to keep
hyenas from digging up the bodies day or night. So, Lucy could protect
her dead with thorns, but could not protect the home base with
thorns?

Partly it's a question of quantity.
It is easy enough to find, or break
off from a dead thorn bush, a few
small branches, and put them over
the occasional corpse, when
burying it. It is a very different
thing to make a set of lion-proof
'walls' of thorn bushes -- and do
so every night.

In any case, they don't help during
the day. Would you let your small
kids play around the bushes if there
were lions and leopards in the area?
Would the women with infants be
able to forage for food?

Any large cats located
(by tracks or faeces) within about 15 km

We will call this the Pauly 15 km imagination zone. It is nothing more
than a delusional lie completely fabricated by Paul.

As I wrote in a recent post:

Olsen and Clark are two prime examples
of the effects of a PA 'education'. Neither
of them ever have anything to say. But
they are deeply puzzled by those who
have.

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/aop/olorg2004/dispatch/start.htm
"We know that they lived a lot in the highlands, since that's where
all the source rocks were.

And that's why humans sweat. There's
always so much salt in the high ground
-- so they can readily afford to waste it.
It's also why humans (and especially
their infants) have no fur. You don't
need insulation when you sleep at night
on the ground in the highlands. The
ground there is always dry (there's
never any rain or condensation in the
highlands) and it's always warm --
all night and every night.


Paul.



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