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60686 Heather Twist
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May 16, 2013
9:53 pm
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Felipe Carvalho <felipebeltrao@... ... Ditto on the crocs and sharks. It's interesting to watch videos of aborigines ...
60687 Marc Verhaegen
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May 16, 2013
10:57 pm
Yes, it's incredible, Chris. 50 years after Hardy (1960) & Sauer (1962), paleo-anthropologists are still running after antelopes. No other science is so...
60688 Marc Verhaegen
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May 16, 2013
11:25 pm
Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes Nancy J Stevens, Erik R Seiffert, Patrick M. O'Connor, Eric M Roberts,...
60689 Marc Verhaegen
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May 16, 2013
11:34 pm
In historical times still, humans were terrified by terrestrial carnivores such as lions (Gilgamesh), bears (Beowulf), wolves (Little Red Ridinghood) etc. ...
60690 terry
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May 17, 2013
7:22 am
Thank you, I did not have this one in my files. Terry...
60691 Heather Twist
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May 17, 2013
7:56 am
Are you sure they were truly terrified? A lot of those stories are clearly about frightening little kids and telling them not to go off in the woods by...
60692 Francesca Mansfield
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May 17, 2013
8:23 am
Hi Heather, I agree with all this. Have you read any Angela Carter - her fairy tales, and allegories with sexual predators? If not, you really should! It's...
60693 terry
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May 17, 2013
9:08 am
Your thoughts on comparative dangers between aquatic and savannah living brought to mind a danger that I do not remember ever hearing mentioned. While a...
60694 Heather Twist
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May 17, 2013
9:50 am
No, I had not heard of her. I'll have to correct that ignorance on my part. She sounds intriguing. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Francesca Mansfield < ... ...
60695 Marc Verhaegen
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May 17, 2013
10:08 am
Indeed. --marc Your thoughts on comparative dangers between aquatic and savannah living brought to mind a danger that I do not remember ever hearing...
60696 Marc Verhaegen
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May 17, 2013
10:12 am
David Quammen 2003 "Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind" For millennia, lions, tigers & their man-eating kin have...
60697 Heather Twist
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May 17, 2013
10:45 am
Huh. That is a good point. The closest analogy is a shark feeding frenzy. But Jamie and Adam, during Shark Week, actually showed surviving floating with a...
60698 Marc Verhaegen
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May 17, 2013
11:08 am
<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork/~3/WGMgVY_hQK8/fr om-ocean-to-land-fishy-origins-of-our.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium =email>...
60699 Marc Verhaegen
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May 17, 2013
11:09 am
No work, only curiosity. Thanks a lot, Chak. --marc Van: azul_chan_chak <albert.chak@...> Beantwoorden - Aan: "AAT@yahoogroups.com"...
60700 dons3148 Send Email May 17, 2013
11:12 am
... Killer whale attacks seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvJ8ujulLg8 aquatic mammals and semi-aquatic mammals, with maybe one or two exceptions are...
60701 christianeng... Send Email May 17, 2013
1:13 pm
... Ain't that because most of these descend from what was original land carnivores? The feeding ethology from land is generally transferred into the water. ...
60702 Francesca Mansfield
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May 17, 2013
1:40 pm
Some additional thoughts: Cetaceans form two distinct groups: baleen and toothed. I've heard a theory that the baleen whales may have descended from herbivores...
60703 dons3148 Send Email May 17, 2013
2:56 pm
... That seems to be the case, the difference between toothed and baleen is the latter are filter feeders, using the mouth to filter out of water small prey...
60704 dons3148 Send Email May 17, 2013
3:55 pm
... Baleen whales... The difference is they are filter feeders, they swim with the mouth open filtering out small prey from the water. While their toothed kin,...
60705 Heather Twist
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May 17, 2013
4:25 pm
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Francesca Mansfield < ... Seems like fish and molluscs are in a 3rd category, digestion-speaking. A number of birds, ducks for...
60706 Marc Verhaegen
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May 17, 2013
9:58 pm
The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans Guo-dong Wang cs 2013 Nature Communications doi 10.1038/ncomms2814 The...
60707 Marc Verhaegen
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May 17, 2013
10:07 pm
Seems like fish and molluscs are in a 3rd category, digestion-speaking. A number of birds, ducks for instance, or songbirds, will eat snails or fish, but can't...
60708 terry
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May 18, 2013
10:24 am
Thank you, Re: Killer whale attacks seal. As threats to longterm survivability go, predation should be far down the list. Lions, crocodiles, and killer whales...
60709 Marc Verhaegen
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May 18, 2013
6:22 pm
Genome-wide data substantiate Holocene gene flow from India to Australia Irina Pugach, Frederick Delfin, Ellen Gunnarsdóttir, Manfred Kayser & Mark Stoneking...
60710 Marc Verhaegen
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7:21 am
"Childbirth and the Future of Homo sapiens", the latest book by Michel Odent, is now available on amazon (paperback and kindle), pinterandmartin.com, serious...
60711 Marc Verhaegen
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7:44 am
MA Wooley, Jan te Nijenhuis & Reagan Murphy 2013 Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of...
60712 Heather Twist
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8:33 am
Well, when I was pregnant, my hormones went nuts and that is in fact all I wanted to read! I even started knitting! Biology is the pits. Fortunately I had read...
60713 christianeng... Send Email 2:36 pm
As I recall, adult Neanderthals by average had larger cranial cavities than extant Homo sapiens. Something like 1400cc in Hn versus 1300c in Hs, on roughly the...
60714 Marc Verhaegen
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4:33 pm
A lot can be said about this, Chris: * Cranial cavities are air sinuses etc. Sinus size generally: Hn>Hs>He. * Probably you mean brain size? Hn>Hs>>He...
60715 Marc Verhaegen
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7:14 pm
New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged Archaeologists have made a discovery in subtropical S-China which could ...
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