... word) after the sound it makes - a sneeze-like breathing sound. The Indus River dolphin is functionally blind having evolved without a crystalline lens...
... Depends on what you mean, by streamlined... Streamlined for speed in water? Not an essential, in our case: picking up shellfish, collecting marine bird...
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:47:35 +1000, "Rob Dudman" ... I would expect that, *if* we were living in a hot, open environment for any length of time, that we would...
... Yes. If we ever adapted to the dry savanna, we had evolved the typical savanna adaptations seen in all savanna mammals: no reason why we should have been...
... Every actively swimming creature, fast or slow, has to be streamlined: it saves an enormous amount of energy (admittedly more at high than at lower ...
Do we know what animals/insects if any carried the papiovirus? Frizzy hair, blood sucking head lice with papiovirus If the papiovirus in Africa was affiliated...
Profet's Theory In 1993 Margie Profet, an evolutionary biologist from the University of California at Berkeley, announced that she had figured out a better ...
... Another genetic trait associated with breast cancer is wet ear wax. The breasts and the glands that produce ear wax are both apocrine glands. According to...
More on Ear Wax Dry & Wet DD ... LANCET describe how a chance discovery of the location for the gene which codes for ear wax could be a useful step towards a...
Hi Rob and Pauline, I noticed this from an earlier post and was interested in the site referred to. See below. [snip] ... Do you have a reference for this...
Stephen and I have been having a good old discussion about the possible merits of diving in the evolution of humanlike bipedalism. We've decided to 'go public'...
... I am not so certain… Humans are basically, slow surface swimmers. (Front crawl 2 m/per second, at best?) Moreover, all kinds of ungainly land animals can...
I've edited for brevity DD AK: Swimming and diving (a horizontal form of locomotion) are more likely to make us quadrupedal - less change in body posture...
I've just seen a reference to a sirenian bone tool in Paleoanthro group, forgot the details. With manatees on the west coast and Lake Chad, and dugongs along...
Sorry, I erred. It wasn't a sirenian bone, but rather a seal fibula. My short term memory is apparently on vacation for the holiday. Happy 4th of July! DD ......
Marc, is there any substantial difference between vernix in terms of lipid abundance in babies of east Asian and European and African ethnicity? Is there a...
From weblog of Kiki Borges: In my anthropology book there is a brief discussion about ear wax. Being Chinese, and from a family that produces a lot of the...
A question arose recently from a reader on whether a free diver could do enough diving to develop decompression sickness. The question has been studied in...
... required ... fix ... that, ... horizontal. ... Ok, some parts of a typical diving episode whilst collecting food would be near-vertical (head below pelvis)...
... IMO such opinions show profound misunderstanding of animal locomotion, see, eg, Hildebrand "Analysis of vertebrate structure" or McGowan "A practical guide...
The relation between tide and menses is by the way not a scientific fact [in the way that other sciences should be able to confirm the circumstance]. BUT...
... well-known: mostly agreed with Stephen - can be read in our papers & ... feet, valgus knee, weight bearing pelvis, lumbar lordosis etc - all adaptation to...
... AFAIK no. ... Yes, I believe some SE-populations (NewGuinea? Australia?) hunt dugongs. Good taste AFAIK. ... They have rel.much smaller brains than...
... *You* keep forgetting this: - apes are faster than we are, - apes have more cylindrical legs than we have, - apes have less plantigrade feet, - apes have...
... - Our littoral ancestors when in the water were basically surface-swimmers? I guess not: the food was at the bottom. - Slow? Yes, of course. As I said:...
... This is the antimicrobial hypothesis. There's also the immunological hypothesis: the female has to get rid of the foreign antigens of the sperm. It this is...
... Wouldn't they have needed to swim and adapt for a number of generations before diving for food? ... Wouldn't they have needed to adapt first, irrespective...
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