Re: Proven facts (Re: Savanna hunters run down kudus (Re: AAT all washed up(WARNING: graphic photo)




Op 23-07-2007 22:35, in artikel
1185222910.802802.322660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On Jul 22, 3:27 pm, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:-D You even believe that kudu running is a proven fact...

Proven fact to everyone who can read English:

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/
1206/1206_samplings.html
December 2006-January 2007

"Running Man Couch potatoes may disagree, but people are fairly well
built to run in the heat. We sweat more per unit of body surface area
than any other animal,

Yes, that requires lots of water & salt. Where do we find these? Yes, at
the beach. That's why overheated furseals sweat abundantly on land.

and our upright posture exposes less body
surface to the sun than would walking on all fours

This is ridiculous nonsense: in that case every animal on thesavanna would
run perpendicularly at 12 o'clock, as everybody with a little bit of common
sense can see: as Elaine wrote: " Accounts of how our Plio-Pleistocene
ancestors may have lived on the savannah include bouts of strenuous activity
outside the gallery forest for hunting or digging (Hanna and Brown, 1983;
but see Newman, 1970); dogged pursuit of swifter animals over one or two
days (Carrier, 1984); and bipedal trekking after migrating herds of savannah
ungulates (Sinclair, Leakey and Morton, 1986; but see Leutenegger, 1987;
Verhaegen, 1987). Some of the even more imaginative versions appear mutually
contradictory. For example, the hypothesis of a foraging or hunting male
accords ill with the meridian theory of Wheeler that our ancestors became
bipedal to minimise direct solar radiation at midday and retained a hairy
heat shield only on top of the head (1984, 1988, in imitation of D. H. K.
Lee, in Newman, 1970; and in Schmidt-Nielsen 1974, p. 89). If we accept this
reasoning, it must have been the women who ranged over the plains at noon
while the balding and bearded males rested in the shade.

:-D

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