Gerrit's Dilemma
- From: Claudius Denk <claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 14, 1:26 am, "Paul Crowley"
<slkwuoiutiuytciu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Gerrit Hanenburg" <g.hanenb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
"Reconstructed habitats show that Australopithecus species
existed in fairly wooded, well-watered regions.Paranthropus
species lived in similar environs and also in more open regions,
but always in habitats that include wetlands. "
All these hominid species are supposed
to have gone into extinction -- merely
because their habitat was reduced.
This habitat may have been reduced, but
it still occupied huge areas -- far more than
enough for any viable species.
Right. With the onset of ice ages east africa generally became
drier. Most hominids would have died out or migrated north (or
south). But they would have persisted in east Africa at locations
that have water available year round.
"Homo is the first hominid to exist in areas of fairly open, arid
grassland. "
THIS is science?
RTFP, and learn something about ecological structure analysis, how
empirical methods on real data are different from paleomania.
There is no point to producing fine print
when you have lost all contact with common
sense. What were these 'grassland hominids'
supposed to have eaten? And how come
they ALSO went into extinction?
These anthro-majors are so ensconced in their paradigmatic assumptions
that they can't think. Their minds shut down and they start spitting
out big words and phrases like, "ecological structure analysis," so as
to divert attention away from the fact that the evidence simply
doesn't support their simpleminded conclusions. You'll note that they
never actually do any "ecological structure analysis." Instead they
talk about it in abstraction and hope nobody notices that it they were
to ever actually apply such (fat chance that) it would prove them
wrong.
"This change from closed to open habitats occurs gradually from
about 4 m.y.a. until about 2 m.y.a. when there is a major increase in
arid and grazing adapted mammals. Therefore, the appearance of
open savannas do not appear to have influenced the origination or
adaptations of the earliest hominids, but could have contributed to
their demise. As Stanley (1992) hypothesized, Homo species appear
the first to be adapted to open, arid environments."
Have you noticed how YOU, your family
and friends, "are adapted to open, arid
environments" ? I have always heard
that Holland was a desert (although the
phrase was 'intellectual desert'). Maybe
I was misinformed, and you live amid huge,
sun-burnt sand dunes, riding camels to
work -- in the isolated oases. Oops, what
would you need an oasis for?
Actually, most people here spend most of their time in artificial
environments where a temperature of around 20 C is experienced as
comfortable. And when they do go outside they take that tropical
climate with them underneath their clothes.
Answer the question you evasive twit: Have you noticed how YOU, your
family and friends, "are adapted to open, arid environments" ?
It's a simple question. Why not provide a simple, honest response?
What are you afraid of?
"Reconstructed habitats show that Australopithecus species
existed in fairly wooded, well-watered regions.Paranthropus
species lived in similar environs and also in more open regions,
but always in habitats that include wetlands. "
.
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