Re: New Savanna Man from China 2 mya




Op 20-11-2007 10:45, in artikel e2b5k3loi14ce0vnj2sl3f6gfno2oatuhp@xxxxxxx,
Gerrit Hanenburg <G.Hanenburg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

Marc Verhaegen <m_verhaegen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But that's not the point. How does a species like Lepus capensis, that
is normally found in open dry savanna, end up in a marsh.

Well, how does it end up there? No herbs near swamps IYO??

Near the swamp ok, but then how does it end up IN the swamp.

Heart attack, my boy.

Yeah, but if it dies of a heart attack NEAR the swamp it isn't yet IN
the swamp. How did it end up IN the swamp after it died of a heart
attack? Gerrit

:-D These savanna believers are so bloody serious... If our hare was at
the end of his life & feeding on waterside herbs, couldn't it fall into the
swamp? Sometime we all have to die. Or perhaps our Boy was running after
hares, got overheated & wanted to cool down in the swamp, or wanted to drown
his prey... Jumped too far & drwoned? My boy, why can't a hare end up IN a
swamp?? Why do you believe there can't be hares near swamps?? I'm not
saying that finding hippos & catfish next to the Boy proves that the Boy was
looking for food there,

We're getting closer, but we're still not there. You keep beating
around the bush and still don't have the courage to admit that when a
taxon is recovered from water-laid sediments, amidst aquatic taxa, it
does not imply that it also lived in that particular depositional
environment.

Inform: this is what we wrote about this:

Not only the Taung cranium, but most hominid fossils - from a time span
covering at least the last six million years - have been found in varied,
but consistently wet environments: in humid forested areas or in the
immediate proximity of abundant water collections at the time. However,
there are the well-known difficulties of paleo-ecological reconstructions
(Shipman & Harris, 1988): ?taphonomic events [?] may selectively destroy or
distort the fossil record and the association among species¹; animals ?may
stray out of their preferred habitats into other areas¹; ?habitats are often
complex and mosaic¹; ?ecological zones or habitats [migrate] across basins
in response to climatic and other fluctuations¹; and, most importantly,
?depositional variables [?] bias the fossil record by sampling a
disproportionate number of habitats related to water (e.g. lake margins,
streams, channels, deltas) and by failing to sample many open-country
habitats farther away from water sources¹. Indeed, that many hominid fossils
have been discovered in such places by no means proves that they actually
lived there. However, it certainly does not exclude it.

Point is, my boy, that humans are furless plus have a lot of SC fat, as
opposed to hares.


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