... Yes, it's not unlikely that the hominoid LCA was already a vertical wader-climber, but this locomotion might have been later (early hominid). Perhaps the...
... From: "" A. Lemak A.S. "" <alas_my_loves@...> To: <AAT@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:52 PM Subject: [AAT] Marine Otter ... ...
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... IIRC, this hypothesis (enamel electronmicroscopy) suggested they fed on fruits & Gramineae, not impossibly bamboo (ref in the files my Hum.Evol.papers "Did...
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... - Pedal syndactyly 3-4 is also seen in phalangeroids: grasping? Has nothing to do with swimming or wading IMO, eg, clawless otters also have reduced ...
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... Thanks, DD. Note the orang holds grass. --Marc...
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PNAS 103:16346-51 Evolutionary trade-off between weapons and testes Leigh W Simmons & Douglas J Emlen 2006 It has long been recognized that male mating...
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... Hello Rob.... If we left everything to experts, there would be no heavier than air flight - aircraft - ... There would be no human footprints on the...
PNAS 103:16343-5 Good genes sexual selection in nature John A Byers & Lisette Waits 2006 Whether the mate sampling and choice performed by females in nature ...
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... AFAIK, but I'm not familiar with Euarasian or African otters, no freshwater otters habitually float on the back in any way comparable to sea otters. No...
... From: Gerard Michael Burns To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [AAT] Re: Gait, stance and gender(Was: Head Hair -...
... From: Marc Verhaegen To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:42 AM Subject: evolution of hominoid locomotions (Re: [AAT] Re: Gait,...
... From: " A. Lemak A.S. " To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:46 PM Subject: [AAT] Re: Gait, stance and gender (Was: Head Hair - Out of...
... It's a big challenge to interpret this tiny data alongside ecological, geological, climate data and conspecifics data. Speculation: Orangs partly...
... that ... about the ... gorilla is ... orang) ... orang) ... orangs. ... nothing ... reduced ... In the rear limbs?? I thought only in the forelimbs (manual...
... Yes the manual plucking-grasping while bipedal wading is common to all hominids and pongids in general, I think. Note Mario's photo on Male Orang adult...
... stance and gender(Was: Head Hair - Out of Africa....?) ... while on ... Or Obligate brachiator.. but that wasn't my point. They are never quadrupedal. (in...
... I tend to see LCA hominoids as extraordinary generalists in both locomotion and omnivorous foraging, sort of a nasalis-macaque hybrid, of which bipedal...
During the last Ice age, along the Calif. coast, sea level dropped 300' (100m). Right after the Ice age, about 9ka, sea level then rose 400' (33m). If China,...
... IMO hominoid LCA in Tethys coastal forests ~18 Ma: - Locomotion: more like Nasalis than Macaca, eg, not terr.QP at all. Regular surface-swimming to get to...
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Elephant missing link: pig sized Paleomastodont 27ma from Eritrea http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uom-fim110106.php Fossil is missing link in...
Hello Algis... ... It depends I suppose, on whether you identify with the cat or with the pigeons. :-) It'll be interesting to see how this research fits...
... From: Gerard Michael Burns To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [AAT] Re: Gait, stance and gender(Was: Head Hair...
Caribou (reindeer), deer, camel hair is hollow, this gives better warmth and good buoyancy. (The first sleeping bags were stuffed with camel hair, warm but a...
... stance and gender(Was: He ... distorted by extreme adaptation to their arboreal environment. That is a proof that they are not quadrupedal but not that...