"Waterside" is meaningless


JHE 2008
Paleoenvironmental context Paleoenvironmental evidence directly
associated with the Yuanmou hominins comes from fossil fauna & micro-
botanical remains. The associated fauna (Table 1) includes 35 mammal
taxa & various mollusks, fish & turtle. 21 of the 35 taxa (eg, Equus
yunnanensis) are taxonomically affiliated with typical grazing species
indicative of an open grassland environment.

Marc Verhaegen:
Yes, thanks for the confirmation, my boy: hippos graze in open
grasslands, my little boy molluscs, fish & turtle don't.

Rich Travsky:
Marc, you posted this: 21 of the 35 taxa (eg, Equus yunnanensis) are
taxonomically affiliated with typical grazing species indicative of an
open grassland environment

Marc Verhaegen:
Thanks! You're an example of a typical savanna believer who omits the
non-mammal faunal evidence. Why does our little boy think that a
waterside Homo can't have horses nearby?

Claudius Denk:
Oh, come come Marc. Nobody is concealing any evidence. And it's not
like you haven't posted it a hundred times or more already. You keep
blabbering on about waterside Okay, fine. A waterside (whatever
that means) hominid (A'pith through HE) could have had horses nearby.
Nobody is disputing this. In fact nobody is disputing that early
hominids must have had water nearby. In my model, for example, I
assume that, generally, they stayed at locations within 1 hour walking
distance of water and/or located themselves within sight of fast
running streams (in garden-like habitat). This only makes sense
considering what we know about the climate with it's significant dry
season. And it makes even more sense when we consider that trees need
sources of ground water in order to survive the dry season and
therefore waterside locations would be the locations where the treed
habitat (upon which these primarily frugivorous earliest hominids
depended upon for nourishment and to escaped some predation by
climbing up into them) persisted in a greater environment that was
largely treeless and grassy.

So Marc, please stop blabbering on about "waterside" as if it carried
any meaning. It doesn't. No serious scientist disputes the general
notion that--having evolved from apes that are associated with well-
watered rainforest habitat--early hominids must have continued to
reside at locations that were well watered and/or within one hours
walking distance of water (usually if not always).

IOW, Marc, the waterside aspect of human origins was figured out a
long time ago. The real issues of hominid evolution have to do with
the selective origins of your social, intellectual, and agricultural
behaviors/adaptations. You obviously have not insight into any of
these real issues.
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