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

"Makouli" <men@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:08CdnaU1LYCV0ynanZ2dnUVZ_rSrnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"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?

Ah, I get it. We can assume that they were
ANYTHING we like. Maybe they had gills,
fins, and mermaid-like tails, and lived in water?
Maybe they had wings and flew around in
the tree-tops. That's how evolution works,
isn't it Mikey? And that's why standard PA
and AAH theories and every wild fancy fit
so well together.

What is it that drives
you to conclude that they were rooted to
one spot?

The mere fact that ALL living hominids and
ALL their ancestral taxa (as far as can be
determined) with the last 30 million years or
so, are (and were) all territorial, and fixed to
defined places -- is all quite irrelevant.

Don't ungulates and other prey
species move around as a function of the
season? Wouldn't hominids *follow* them?

How come there are no living tribes (nor
any within historical memory) who did
this? But who am I to interfere with PA
fantasy. Human evolution was whatever
you wanted it to be.

Aren't they capable of covering 20 km a day?

Migrating ungulates cover a lot more than
any human can do. They didn't have
motorised quad-bikes then, Mikey.

How much water is scattered around the
savanna, Pauly? A pint, 2 gallons, what?

You'd need about two gallons a day and,
even if someone carried it for you, you'd not
be able to move far.

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.

Sure -- like all those 'savanna tribes' do now,
and have done for the past two or three
million years.

And you have the cheek to criticise AAT
folks for the lack of realism in their theories!


Paul.



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