Homo littoral disapora
- From: "Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:20:10 -0400 (EDT)
"Aquatic Ape Theory" is an inaccurate term: it's not about apes, nor about
our ancestors having been aquatic. AAT only states that our ancestors
sometime after the Homo/Pan split relied partly on aquatic resources:
- "Homo": AAT, contrary to what many PAs think, has nothing to do with
australopiths,
- "littoral": it's about our ancestors having been shoreline dwellers
(coast/lake/river-side),
- "diaspora": Homo remains 1.8 Ma are found in places as far as Ain Hanech
(Algeria), Dmanisi (Georgia), Mojokerto (Java) etc.: AAT simply says that
these people got there along shorelines, not over dry plains. Leading PAs
such as Ph.Tobias http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm &
Chr.Stringer now agree with a "wet" past & shoreline dispersals
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT
--Marc Verhaegen
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Symposium.html
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Verhaegen.html
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