Re: The human urinary system - comparative anatomy help request




Op 17-08-2007 21:00, in artikel
1187377245.377895.136670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On Aug 17, 9:35 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IOW,Olson is too stupid to answer.

Says Verhaegin, who doesn't know anymore about mountain beavers than
he does living a littoral lifestyle.

"Here's a point to consider when evaluating AAT. I did not learn this
point from some academic overlord with an anti-AAT agenda; I learned
it while trying to avoid becoming crocodile food in Africa.

What, my little child, have crocs to do with AAT??
Why read the rest of this infantile blabla??
Are you reallly too stupid to discern between apiths & Homo??

_________

When I
spent several months with a team at Lake Turkana, Kenya, investigating
some of the most important early hominid sites in the world, one of
our overriding concerns -- while swimming, bathing, or catching fish
with a net -- was to watch out for crocodiles in the shallows. A croc
can be on you, crush your legs in its jaws, and drag you under to
drown before you have time to screech for help.
The fact that crocodiles co-existed in time and space with early
hominids is a colossal blow to AAT, which does not explain what
advantages early humans would have gained by spending time in
crocodile-populated waters; an environment where they could not make
fires, throw stones or sticks, use other tools, or have any hope
whatever of escaping the most common predator. A troop of early
hominids wading in a lakeshore or swampy forest would best be
described as a crocodile banquet. The cute, feel-good images of babies
swimming freely in a pool, shown in the AAT video, have nothing to do
with the real situation of predator avoidance in Africa. Ask the
Dasenich or Turkana people who live around Lake Turkana: only visiting
maniacs swim in that lake." Cameron M. Smith


Lew Binford page 66: "The place I would never choose to establish a
camp in the African Savannah is next to a water source."
Binford, L. 1983 In Pursuit of the Past. Thames and Hudson, New York


Lee Olsen: " How close did you camp to lakes?"

*** Kocan: "Not very close."
( PhD marine biology and African big-game hunter)

Hadza camp a twenty minute walk from water sources (O'Connell 2002).

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/aop/olorg2004/dispatch/start.htm
The idea of sleeping on the higher ground rather than next to water
seemed an attractive idea. Lakes, ponds, and stream channels in the
African bush are good natural sources of water and plant food during
the day. But at night they turn into really great places if you want
to be hunted down as prey! The water margins attract the big and small
predators that like to hunt in the dark of night. Even today at
Olorgesailie, we often go to sleep hearing hyenas, jackals, and
sometimes lions growling and whooping off in the distance during their
nighttime prowls. Anyway, early humans could get food in the lowlands
- that's where they left the chipped stone tools and other evidence of
their activities. And, unlike earlier hominins, they could have
avoided the favored hunting areas of other predators if they got to
higher ground at night.




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