"What difference could there be between human and ape that would precipitate the very great differences we see today?" Hi RKS. The most important differences...
The proto-Red Sea was fed by the Mediterranean which became isolated from its feed waters from the Atlantic around 6.1 million years ago after global sea...
... Thanks, Marcel. Those dates are more in line with those of Lumiere ... Evolution of Human bipedalism: A hypotheses about where it happened. by L.P.La...
Do you know about a new paper on the role of an aquatic environment in the evolution of early hominins recently published? "Shallow-water habitats as sources...
It took some time, but now... congratulations for the publication of your paper! I was talking some minutes ago with one of my supervisors (I am at the moment...
"This supports the case for evolution because it shows that you can drive complexity with random mutations in duplicate genes," Fernandez said. "But this also...
Special Issue: The Importance of Fallback Foods in Primate Ecology and Evolution Shallow-water habitats as sources of fallback foods for hominins R Wrangham, D...
... Elaine, I would say neither, think he is simply saying complexity arises from inefficient selection, that more complex organisms rely on inefficient...
Of course, the Danakil Peninsula was too high ever to become an island during the flooding of the Red Sea. But their were areas just north of the Danakil Alps...
... Hi m3d, 4 My is not necessarily sufficient to cause a speciation. There are examples of much more distant inter-breedings than that. Chimps/bonobos...
... Hi Rob ... Thanks for the 'heads up'. I actually was thinking of both. ... It's a fair objection I suppose but there are ways round it. I am ignorant of...
... Thanks Marcel, As Derek Ellis has pointed out a few times, the Red Sea rifting is another wetland/coastal factor that was almost certain to have had a big...
... Morning Algis, 3.5 Mya seems to have been sufficient time for human and chimpanzee to be distinct species some two million years ago, when H.erectus was...
... Would agree not all high ground would have become islands when the Red sea flooded, but if the area was roughly the same as it is today those areas north...
... Not necessarily ... Darwinian survival of the fittest ("only the fittest organisms will prevail") would work to eliminate those mildly deleterious...
... A map of the Northern Afar region during the Early Pliocene can be found in the files section in my 2006 paper 'Morphological evidence of marine...
... Thanks for ref., Marcel There is a good illustration of a possible island on page.9 of your paper ... Afar island ... it would appear to be roughly 20/25...
... Elaine, Yes, Darwin did not coin the phrase "survival of the fittest" himself that 'honour' goes to one of his colleagues - Herbert Spencer who coined it...
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