Re: patas & sealions run after kudus (Re: Endurance athletes heavy water consumers


"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rick Wagler wrote:

"Phil Nicholls" <pan...@xxxxxxxxx>
Bipedalism is a terrestral form of locomtion developed
NOT for chasing down kudus but for walking for
moderately long distances in an energetically efficient
manner,

So A'piths and earlier hominids
were good at walking?

This is typical of Standard PA
nonsense.

And what kind of animal would we be if we couldn't?

Go back to the statement by Phil Nicholls.
He thinks that bipedalism developed for a
particular reason: "walking for moderately
long distances in an energetically efficient
manner".

Do you agree with his 'logic'?


Yes. Ethnography, anatomy and physiology do
not contradict.

Simply false. All that we know of the
anatomy of early hominids (such as A'piths)
tells us that they were very POOR at walking
-- having short legs, something like chimps.
(I have no idea what you imagine is the
relevance of 'ethnography').

That is a simple and observable fact. Yet
dumb PA types (like yourself and Nicholls)
can't absorb it, nor deal with it.

Firstly, you have no idea what brought about
bipedalism, and you thrash around for any
idea. Having (at length) got one, you are
loath to let it go.

Secondly, you like to see you own taxon as
Superman (naturally always forgetting the
women and children). That requires that you
never to admit to any deficiency, such as
being poor at walking -- no matter how
obvious it is in the fossil record.


Paul.

"What kind of animal would **we** be
if we couldn't? Understand what "we"
means? Of course bipedalism did not
emerge as a fully perfected thing immediately.
Nothing ever does. But your insistence on
its complete lack of utility in the genus Homo
is ludicrous.

As for the women and children.....your trashing
of women as useless, helpless dead weights
with children who drop dead at the brush of a
feather .....When Geronimo led the last great
breakout from the Apache Indian Reservation in
1885 be had 42 warriors and over 90 women
and children. They then stayed on the loose for
over a year in some of the roughest country you
can imagine. Mostly on foot. I don't know how
an apache woman with a child would compare
to an erectus woman and child but both would
appear to be very capable and not the pathetic
useless creatures of your chauvinist imagination.

Rick Wagler


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