Re: The savannah one is pretty much out the window now.


*AUSTRALIAN scientists working on an archaeological cave dig in South
Africa
have found evidence that some prehistoric humans began eating seafood and
painting up to 30,000 years earlier than had been thought.

The discovery of this artistic, beach-loving, lobster-chomping hominid (I
do
hope they christen him "Bronte-saurus") is invaluable to the understanding
of our forebears. "It is hard to get into the mind of early people and find
out what they were thinking," a University of NSW archaeologist, Dr Andy
Herries, said.*

I've never liked the Savannah hypothesis. he first time I read about AAT it
made perfect sense. Evolution requires purpose.

SF:
It does?

ask the writer, my boy

I'd rather ask the poster who uncritically dumps such extraordinary
claims in this newsgroup just because some nitwit in it speaks out in
favor of the AAT.
Do you subscribe to the statement that evolution requires a purpose?

do you subscribe that evolution requires adaptedness: do you subscribe that
that a creature that develops a bad olfaction, thick fat layers & a sodium &
water-wasting cooling system adapts to the savanna??

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