Re: Evolution = gradual




Op 22-01-2008 22:51, in artikel
a3b896b4-1da3-482f-82b4-2c5797324337@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On Jan 22, 1:41 pm, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My little boy, what on earth has that to do with AAT??

Nothing has anything to do with AAT

Ah??

Inform a bit:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT
Description:
* Comparative & fossil information on human & ape evolution.
* Waterside diaspora of Homo after Homo & Pan split ~5 Ma.

AAT:
* Aquatic Ape Theory of human evolution (original term E.Morgan 1982)
* Aquarboreal Apes Theory of Mio-Pliocene apes (aqua=water, arbor=tree)
* Amphibious Ancestors Theory of Plio-Pleistocene Homo (AAT strict sense)

AAT s.s. is based on comparisons of the behavior-anatomy-physiology-DNA of
living humans with chimps & other living animals.

Collection of waterside foods (eg, fruits, (coco)nuts, turtle & bird eggs,
shell & crayfish, water(side)plants, drowned herbivores, stranded whales
etc.) explains unique Homo traits (not seen in apes & australopiths) better
than dwelling in forests or dry plains: huge brain, slow-diving skills,
breath control, vocality, small mouth+chewing muscles, tongue bone descent,
longer airway, projecting nose, poor sense of smell, handiness & tool use,
late puberty, long legs, alined body, poor climbing, flat feet, fur loss,
fatness, profuse sweating, high needs of water, sodium, iodine,
poly-unsat.fatty acids (DHA), etc.

Homo & Pan separated ~6­4 Ma. Homo populations dispersed along
lakes/shores/rivers in savannas & elsewhere, eg, crossed 18 km sea to reach
Flores 0.8 Ma.
Homo tools/fossils 2.5­0.1 Ma are found near Rift valley lakes & even (sea
level fluctuations hindered fossilisation) Indian Ocean & African coasts:
Mojokerto, Dungo V Baia Farta, Terra Amata, Table Bay, Eritrea etc.

* Max Westenhöfer 1942. Der Eigenweg des Menschen. Mannstaede
* Alister Hardy 1960. Was Man more aquatic in the past? NS 7:624
* Maggie Roede etc.1991. The Aquatic Ape: Fact or Fiction? Souvenir
* Elaine Morgan 1997. The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. Souvenir London
* Marc Verhaegen etc.2002. Aquarboreal ancestors? TREE 17:212
* Stephen Cunnane 2005. Survival of the Fattest. World Scientific
* Phillip Tobias http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm
* Symposium 1999. Water & Human Evolution
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Symposium.html

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