Re: Habilis and Erectus overlapped

"nickname" <alas_my_loves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is, in fact, a beautiful confirmation of my
proposal that inland sites (such as Lake
Turkana) were those of hominid 'refugees'
fleeing from their coastal habitats.

I disagree with the word fleeing, preferring expanding due to
population pressure.

The difference is huge -- since ALL species
seek to expand 'due to population pressure';
nearly all do it in most years.

Individuals (often juveniles) of those species
will move out from their natural habitat, into
foreign ones where they will die. IF their
fossils survive in such circumstances, no
competent scientist will suggest that they
lived in that environment.

Unfortunately there is an almost complete
absence of competence among those scientists
who claim to study human evolution.

I think there were coastal hominids in the rift

If there were hominids in the rift (and they
were not transient refugees) then they were
not coastal hominids.

when it connected with the Indian Ocean and also north of the Red Sea
in that rift, where we find neandertals and early Hs later on. But as
you say, the inland groups had it worse and weren't able to adapt as
well to the inland ecology

Either they adapted, successfully reproduced,
and had a viable population (and became
another species), or they were transient 'refugee'
individuals.


Paul.




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