Re: "Waterside" is meaningless

On Dec 18, 7:58 am, rmacfarl <rmacf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 18, 1:46 am, mclark <mbclar...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


It would have been so much easier if you'd just written "yes, i can
see humans have lived in waterside habitats more than chimps since the
LCA" but I guess that would be a heretical thing for you to do. What
on earth would the others say?

Heretical? You want to accuse someone of avoiding a question for fear
of transgressing orthodoxy? How about this one then:

rmacf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ross Macfarlane) wrote in message ...
Final question - when did the hominids become savannah-adapted?

Never.

I don't get it. I was being the heretic there, I was not cow-towing to
authority.

Algis Kuliukas
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