... ones. Could it geologically be that there initially were islands between Africa & S.America between these capes when these continents split apart? Jose? ...
... were, as far as I know. Could be wrong, though. I don't know much about Orrorin. -- Mario What is "functionally bipedal"? Its femur was more humanlike than...
... I don't think we are some big runners, even today. It just means that (IMHO) trasformation of way of life, from primate-like one, to human-like one, was...
It's clear (semi)aquaticness (alone) can't explain bipedalism: - most bipedal animals are not (semi)aquatic; - most (semi)aquatics are not bipedal. Humanlike...
Marc Verhaegen
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Nov 1, 2004 12:39 pm
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Nice summary and I concur with your opinion. I've been thinking about our hairlessness recently and have come to the tentative conclusion that long, flowing...
... Long flowing hair on females could have major survival advantages for infants. Infants of longer haired moms tended not to drown, continued on to ...
But then way do males have hair, that without cutting becomes long and flowing, unlike say chimp hair? Even with long hair to hold on to I don't see water as...
... Some adaptations apply to all even if they only have survival affects upon one gender. If it didn't harm, it would continue to exist. Human babies have ...
... Yup, and it refers to female brains, not male. Whether or not those two paragraphs specified female, I mention the female appearance so often that you ...
... But she IS juvenile - we all are. We ALL have the juvenile skull shape. Read my post to Gerard and see if that makes sense. We are so used to seeing the...
... tentative conclusion that long, flowing hair would be a major hindrance to (semi)aquaticness and would have been selected out. Does anyone else have any...
... flowing, unlike say chimp hair? I tried to answer this in another post (see esp. my 1987 Med.Hyp.paper - AAT files). ... environment for babies. Do human...
(Perhaps there's something worng with Stephen's email address.) Stephen, did you got the email I sent you last night? --Marc [Non-text portions of this...
C4 ecosystems, and mammalian evolution TE Cerling, JR Ehleringer & JM Harris 1998 Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B 353:159-171 The decline of atmospheric CO2 over the...
... I thought (& hoped) this neoteny discussion was long forgotten. In some instances we can call our skull "neotenous", if you want (but why would we?), but...
... the posts to the AAT group with a great deal of interest and I'd like to express my appreciation to all who contribute. ... Messinian Salinity Crisis...
... Marc, thanks. You write.... ... After reading the arguments both pro and con the AAT over the years, I've formed the impression that this very issue, all...
Hello m3d. You write......... ... As I understand it, the locations that you mention have been favored by AAT supporters for a host of good reasons, but there...
Hello Mario. You write... ... Would you elaborate on what you mean here? One of the last things that I've read about it informed me of vegetation layers found...
... smaller ones. ... between Africa & ... Jose? ... The rock ... Iceland ... other ... Like Krakatoa or Thera, maybe? There could be any number of ways for a...
... I should have looked at my atlas. The Azores, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha all arise from the mid-Atlantic ridge, and could have been larger 40 Mya....
Ken Moore
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Nov 2, 2004 7:52 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the AAT group. File : /floating.JPG ...
AAT@yahoogroups.com
Nov 2, 2004 9:00 am
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... I said nothing about humans being neotenous; I said we have a juvenile skull shape. At most, I am considering one feature apart from others, which is what...
"deowll" <deowll@...> wrote in message news:Y8Bhd.8433$T_.3433@.... ... Most medium to small water living mammals have fur. Yes....
Marc Verhaegen
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Nov 2, 2004 4:12 pm
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... I couldn't find the original proposal that the dry Mediterranean would be icy cold, so I am quoting your comment. I think it's a misconceived idea. From...
Ken Moore
ken@...
Nov 2, 2004 6:32 pm
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... In some ... typically-human ... consider ... than apes, ... others, which ... There is no ... humans have ... (probably for ... a lot & ... Ok, we have a...
... Another estimate: I found a web site with a calculator of the ICAO Standard Atmosphere (a sort of fictional average atmosphere for aircraft designers) that...
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