... mothers and children play major roles' By Susan Rich Sheridan, Ed.D. http://drawingwriting.com/scribbs.html ... language? Hmmm... And she also says that...
I'd make the same remarks as Pauline, but I think we need animal examples of white of eyes before we can say much sensible on the subject. Any mammals/birds...
... Well, what can I say? I can only say, thanks Marc very, very much, yet another time, : ). I believe you've read about find on northern Pacific isles, of...
... No, it is due to grabbing a branch. When you grab a branch, the meat on your fingers compress. It is good to have something onto which it will compress. So...
... Average acuity is 6/6 (20/20), an a lucky few have 6/4.5 (20/15)vision. But even that is nowhere as good the eyesight of some birds. Hawks have 20/2...
... Platypus has Large nails. They are covered with webbing. Cape clawless otter (Aonyx capensis) has no webbs. Fingernails are almost vestigial. It can put...
Ward, Begun and Rose say that all hominids except Homo, have curved phalanges. Hence it could very much be an inherited primitive trait. This goes for other...
... phalanges. Hence it could very much be an inherited primitive trait. This goes for other climbing traits, too. -- Mario 1) Not inherited in Homo then? 2)...
... curved ... trait. ... Yes, I apsolutely agree. Body weight plus bellow branch minus the terrestriality of species. Thanks for excellent explaination, and...
... your fingers compress. It is good to have something onto which it will compress. So our claws widened. -- Mario Yes, IIRC, some phalangeroids that grasp...
... OK, makes sense. I was thinking of non-homo inventions eg. The female dolphin that started using sponge around its mouth to forage, then passed this ...
PLoS Biol. Oct.1;3(11):e380 First Observation of Tool Use in Wild Gorillas T.Breuer, M.Ndoundou-Hockemba & V.Fishlock 2005 Descriptions of novel tool use by...
... Fingernails (an toenails) offer protection and support for the fingerpad an improve sensation(touch)(fingernails, are also useful, when climbing a...
... I think Homo has always been a group forager in general, whether the group was a mother and infant collecting seaweed or a group of males hunting ...
... Good questions, I dunno answers, I'll keep my eyes open, will skim Gryzmeks animal encyclopedia for eyes when I get time. Dogs have white behind the dark ...
... Excellent question, : ). I would say so. There should be no problem above branch, when arms are situated opposed one to another. But below branch, in a...
... I wonder if a blind deaf person would be able to detect it... ... It could simply be a vestige of some seventh sense ... Yam sing (Cantonese) Gahn beh...
Thanks for informing me Mario. I posted here a message about pigs that hunt and eat river crabs even pushing boulders around to uncover them, in the book The...
... Ok, I did find some info. It is from Aiello/Dean's book, figure 18.21. If "curved phalanges' actually means "Proximal phalangeal curvature", then orangutan...
... Interesting Mario. Does it mention Gibbons/Siamangs/Hylobatidae phalange curvature? Is this only hand fingers or foot toes or average of both? DD...
Marc, Algis put the PLoS link in SAP message that has more photos. There are now so many, maybe you should choose your favorites? I'm off for a few days now....
... Squirrels have completly different mode of climbing. The problem is in size. Take a look at a fly. It can walk on vertical glass. Size affects climbing...
... Oops. You are right. Another thing where I was wrong all the time. I always thought that they are talking about hand, but it is actually foot phalanges in...
... size. Take a look at a fly. It can walk on vertical glass. Size affects climbing very much. Squirrel can climb by stiching claws into the wood. It has some...
... phalanges. Hence it could very much be an inherited primitive trait. This goes for other climbing traits, too. -- Mario ... phalanges (of hands IIRC)....
... branch, when arms are situated opposed one to another. But below branch, in a swinging motion, when arms are situated in the same direction, our hands ...
... examples of white of eyes before we can say much sensible on the subject. Any mammals/birds with white sclerae? In many Africans, the "white" of the eye...
... period. ... on your fingers compress. It is good to have something onto which it will compress. So our claws widened. -- Mario ... instead of claws. And...
... What Mario wrote about the flesh compressing is true and easily demonstrated, but I can't see how this could be beneficial in the hanging situation. This...
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