Re: Faster Than A Hyena?

"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After some research I see there is evidence that early homo (pre-
erectus) did make it out of Africa, and on re-reading Leakey, I see
that all species of homo, including the early/questionable ones, were
runners,

How come, after mastering this
niche, they stopped occupying it?

How many find pursuit hunting still a viable lifestyle in the modern
world?

though the A'piths were not.

So A'piths clearly occupied a different
niche (and different habitats) from later
homo.

How come all hominids before Homo
(as represented by A'piths) went into
extinction -- after so successfully
occupying a distinct niche for a few
million years?

Maybe because that niche disappeared and/or was invaded by other taxa.
The apith taxon that lasted the longest in stratigraphic overlap with
Homo, namely Paranthropus, was also the one with the most extreme
expression of craniodental characters (under the influence of
character displacement to avoid competition?).

Bad evolutionary theorists -- such
as the savanna types (e.g. Leakey)
and the aquatic nuts -- love to indulge
in promiscuous niche-swapping. It can
'explain' everything, and avoids all need
for thought.

It seems that they are quite unfamiliar
with all of nature, and the fact that taxa
and species prefer to stick to the same
kind of habitat, and ways of life. They
have no understanding of evolution,
nor of the concept of 'evolutionary
niche'.

If there were no such thing as niche-swapping (shifting would be a
more appropriate term) then the enormous diversity of life on this
planet would be unexplained.
The bipedal hominidae is not a single species and therefore can not be
considered to have had a single niche that remained unchanged from the
most basal member of that clade to its only extant representative. The
morphological change alone within that group is already an argument
against such a position (there is no need for morphological change in
a stable niche).

Gerrit
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