Re: human ancestors dived parttime for shellfish

On May 31, 7:10 pm, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yet there they are, a TV writer
in England, a Doctor (incredible but true) in Belgium,
and a Ph.D. student in Australia --all claiming that
we were "more aquatic in the past".

...> strikingly absent in, eg, savanna mammals.

After Homo & Pan split ~6­4 Ma, Homo populations spread along seashores &
from there inland along lakes/rivers in savannas & elsewhere, eg, crossed 18
km sea to Flores 0.8 Ma: tools/fossils 2.5-0.1 Ma are found near Rift valley
lakes & even (sea level fluctuations hindered fossilisation) Indian Ocean &
African coasts, often amid seashells: Mojokerto, Dungo V Baia Farta, Terra
Amata, Table Bay, Eritrea...

...
oops, yer macro has gone bad agin, Marco, unless this is really what
you are going for, to co-op Ed Conrad into your little aquaceous group
and get 1 or 2 more members.

I remember that back in ~64 Ma., it was kind of a slow year, since all
the dinosaurs had just gone extinct , and the mega mammals had yet to
evolve. It would have actually been a perfect time for the H/P split,
and would have given humans plenty of time for their imaginary aquatic
fase where they grew gills and lived as mermen in a submerged
Atlantis.

Then, around ~8 Ma. the seasonal dessication and Monsoon climates
caused by Atlantean pollution and global warming... the collapse of
the Atlantean economy, and all those little hairless ape-men had to
jump back out of the sea-water and de-evolve their gills so that they
could take up in city/tree-states and grow agriculture, as in the
myths of McGinn.

And even later, in 4 Ma., they all got stranded on an island around
the Red Sea where they domesticated dogs and had no natural
competitors, as in the fables of Crowley.

-spizzy
.

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