Re: Michael Clark, would you like to make a retraction?

"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right. So they'd be extremely vulnerable to drought and its
complications than, let's say, a zebra. Right?

Wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_Zebra

All it says is what's been quoted:

"Plains zebras can not survive very long without water and must be at
least 25-30 kilometers from a water source."

But there are huge differences between
zebras and hominids in this matter. Zebras
are not territorial, and go where they will,
seeking water when they need it -- over
long distances. Whereas hominids ARE
territorial. They must have water locally.

How do you know anything about these
hominids, Pauly? What is it that drives
you to conclude that they were rooted to
one spot? Don't ungulates and other prey
species move around as a function of the
season? Wouldn't hominids *follow* them?
Aren't they capable of covering 20 km a day?
How much water is scattered around the
savanna, Pauly? A pint, 2 gallons, what?

A human mother with a small infant cannot
walk more than a few kilometres to get water
every day, and normally she will walk much
less.

Unless of course she belongs to a group whose
daily existence involves walking. In which case
she begins to walk on waking and continues to
do so at a leisurely pace all day long stopping only
long enough to forage and chit chat w/ her bandmates.

Or even a babboon. Right?

Wrong. Baboons need drinking water just as humans do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baboon

Ridiculous. Baboons do not sweat, and
have far lower requirements for water.
Your 'source' says nothing about this.
Did you read it?

I wonder what your point is..."assuming you
have one"?

Kinda make you wonder what they were doing
out in the treeless savanna

As Mikey has pointed out to you, savanna is not treeless.

Only complete fools believe that hominids
evolved on savannas.

"Only complete fools believe that
hominids evolved on savannas."
Pauly --02/14/08

Yet there they were, out there on the savanna,
busily evolving for a million years blissfully ignorant
of Paul Crowley's admonitions.

Paul.


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