Re: With birds and lions Re: mud flat
- From: RichTravsky <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:29:12 -0700
Paul Crowley wrote:
RichTravsky wrote:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/226/1
In addition to finding the human footprints, the
researchers also found tracks of ancient animals,
from birds to lions, that provide a "snapshot in time
of what animals were on the landscape," says
paleoanthropologist and co-author John Harris of
Rutgers University, New Brunswick. The new glimpse of
the footpaths of animals and humans complement
earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior
of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern
body proportions, it also increased its home range
and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on
the savanna, says Harris.
That must be why we love rotten meat
-- preferring it to fresh, just like hyena,
wolf and dog. It must be why we have
such an excellent sense of smell.
And it must be why we have so many
savanna adaptations -- conserving
water and salts.
Everything makes so much sense in
Standard PA.
What rotten meat are you babbling about?
.
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