Re: Tobias 1995

On Dec 6, 10:51 am, Paul Crowley <dsfdsfd...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Claudius Denk wrote:
Algis wrote

How do you explain the fact that apes capable of carrying
clubs existed on this planet (through the full Miocene) for
millions of years before hominids suddenly emerged on the
scene about 7.25 mya

Because apes would not carry a club up
into a tree (except on special occasions).
The first (proto-) bipeds had to be able
(a) to stop sleeping in trees; and
(b) be able to hold on to their clubs
at all times (including at night).

I can't believe you expect others to take this absurd reasoning
seriously.


That was only possible in a location
where there were no large nocturnal
predators.

(which, btw, coorelates perfectly with

How does a vague date (on which something
suddenly happens)

The fossil record seems to suggest hominids
appearing suddenly on the scene in East, and/or North Africa at about
7.25 mya, at the beginning of the messinian (the last age of the
miocene epoch). (Climatically, the Asian Monsoon came into existence
at this point in time 7 and 1/4 million years ago.)

You have to about be retarded to not--in the least--suspect that the
close coorelation (both geographically and temporally) of the
emergence of monsoon habitat and hominid evolution is causally
related. But, Paul, you've displayed such blatant ignorance of the
interrelationship of climate/environment to the shifts in biota, as
plainly revealed in the fossil record, that it is hardly surprising
you have this absurd opinion.

manage to correlate
perfectly with anything?

the emergence of monsoon habitat in east Africa).

Unknown to science.

Prove me wrong, dumbass. (Science isn't a spectator sport.) You are
displaying blatant ignorance of what is common knowledge amongst
paleoclimatologists and paleontogist.

Do you know what the Ethiopian Fauna is? Can you explain why it
emerged suddenly about 7.25 mya. I can. (And have.)

.

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