... I don't recall from those posts a new challenge that would require a larger brain or a use to which it could be put with volutionary advantage. Did you...
Ken Moore
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Mar 1, 2006 9:17 am
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... 20;96(15):8795-9. ... extinctions", eg, ... based ... MW: The phalanges of Oreopithecus are only minimuly curved. And australopithecines also have curved...
Fossil turns back clock New find in China shows mammals were larger and appeared earlier than believed, living side by side with dinosaurs instead of after...
... Hello Rob.... ... Thanks for the link... Would seem our early ancestors were never free of these pests, not even on the beach. The early treks of Homo out...
I recently read something dating the commencement of man-made images to the dates of cave and rock art and it set off a series of questions for me. Cave art...
Native Australian Art springs to mind Google brings up loads of links ... From: AAT@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AAT@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Empress9@... ...
... From: Gerard Michael Burns To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [AAT] Freshwater vs Saltwater ... From: "David...
J.exp.Biol.209:633-644 Effects of limb mass distribution on mechanical power outputs during quadrupedalism DA Raichlen 2006 Many researchers have suggested...
... I guess that during Plio-Pleistocene colder periods (where there were more shellfish then??) sea levels dropped (more ice at the poles) & an omnivorous ...
... Not all apiths had curved phalanges, as you know. The ones with highly curved phalanges (eg, Lucy) no doubt were highly arboreal. In fact, "curved ...
If eccrene skin glands are for sweat-cooling or for grip-friction, then why does dog scrotal skin contain eccrene sweat glands? Eccrene skin glands developed...
... evoliuton. MW: If the ancestors Oreopithecus could not have come from Eurasia, because of the sea barrier, then obviously, they must have come from Africa...
Nothing new or relevant in what you said below, Marcel. I don't think it's better to end this "discussion". ... Placing different animals in 1 clade because...
... & ... It seems like the mtDNA evidences using molecular clocks is fatally flawed. It seems like when nuclear DNA is used, the results are vastly...
Most anatomical structures have multiple advantages. - That eccrine glands protect against microbes doesn't mean they can't produce waste products (eg, urea)....
Marc Verhaegen
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Mar 2, 2006 9:37 am
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I didn't say anything on mtDNA. If you don't want to believe that HP & G split after hominids & pongids split, or that HP & G split before H & P split,...
... If you refer to something else than mtDNA, please enlighten me to what other evidences there is for such conjecture. ... No, I don't believe that. I think...
... Dates determined from any sort of DNA are rendered inaccurate by the variable rates of mutation, which are often difficult to determine. This problem is...
Ken Moore
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Mar 2, 2006 10:48 am
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Thanks, DD! Several interesting links. --marc _________ http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060222/sc_space/explorersdiscoverhugecaveand ...
Proceedings: Biological Sciences 273:687-692 The evolution of parental care and egg size: a comparative analysis in frogs Kyle Summers, Christian Sea McKeon &...
"Backward evolution" spawns ape-like people If our ancestors ever knuckle-walked, these people would not have been palmigrade. --Marc [Non-text portions of...
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:07:50 -0500, "David Bunch" ... This is an interesting question. Algis Kuliukas (one of the regulars here) has a theory that the answer...
... palmigrade. --Marc ... (sorry, the link seems to have been lost in forwading the message) ... at some level. I would not be surprised if it were. ... very...
... Why do you assume that urea is a waste product? Urea is a protectant AFAIK, being slightly alkaline excretion, thus protecting against acid-tolerant...
Whirlpool baths: enter at your own risk By Megan Rauscher Thu Mar 2, 10:46 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Better think twice before soothing those aching...
... age) is ... believing ... MW: First of all, there have been various attempted estimates of the oreopithecine-- subadult-- cranial capacity. Some studies...
MW: I think its pretty obvious that, phylogenetically, the molecular evidence is highly accurate. But the evidence is now overwhelming that it does come...
... brain then I'll just let you go on believing that. Marcel ... is an argument for Oreop being a human ancestor, I'll let you go on believing that......
Thanks, Ken. In the 70s they didn't how to resolve the trichotomy H/P/G, but since then there have been numerous studies (incl.anatomical: B.Wood etc. in PNAS...
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