More findings that appear to point to early trans-oceanic travel. (The recent discovery that South American chickens came from Polynesian chickens, not...
... If this story proves to have some merit, it could indicate that it was possible to enter Europe ( via a land-bridge? ) a million odd years ago, from...
... Possibly, it was something they lost when adopted a K.walking gait ( an irreversible trait? ). Gorillas are possibly more at ease on two feet than...
So Algis, this will be our last large message here for many weeks. We have - like you - a lot of things to do. Let's go! --Renato (I am alone here, so you...
Dear Marc: thank you for your comments here. Some answers you can take from my message to Algis from today (about tail lost, for instance), and some I have to...
... bird//bat ... but ... & have ... a ... were ... ÄÄÄhh: we think, we know a lot about fossils, but we are not paleoanthropologists. We work with the...
Bipedalism Most apes are at least temporarily bipedal, using their upright state for locomotion, feeding and sentry behaviour, all of which are useful for ...
... Thanks a lot, Renato. All the best with your work! Please let us know when you have new information or ideas! ... But A.afar resembles A.aeth.-boisei, but...
... 44 http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm Tobias: "... Another deep oceanic channel - the Strait of Gibraltar - lies between Ceuta and Morocco in...
Op 01-07-2007 15:21 schreef Marc Verhaegen ... My 1996 Hum.Evol.paper: When comparing hominid-pongid skulls, there are 3 clusters: apiths ; gr.apes ; Homo. ...
... am ... Your English is x1000 better than my German. Ok... one more. ... is ... Ok... but Orrorin/Sahelanthropus are less problematic. ... have ... was ... ...
I've submitted a slightly different version of that post to the Paleoanthro group, as well. Here's a paragraph I added at the end: "One possible explanation...
Thank you for your comments. Of course I would like to answer every single point, but I will not; some points of divergence we still have can be better...
... In evolutionary terms, bipedal bonobos remain a possibility. But an expanding human population makes it unlikely. ... Carthaginian admiral Hanno, is...
... Marc, many thanks for the link. Swimming, the straits seems the best of the three possibilities. Floating, you would probably end up in the icy waters of...
... Yes, heel braking. Extremly interesting. Heel braking is neceseary in moving downhill. I wonder how would this heel breaking affect BHBK of apes. So, yes,...
... Thanks, Marc. This all is very interesting. First, that IDIOTIC misconception that animals don't have brains, so they are absolutely uncapable to do...
... Yes. It's already difficult & controversial enough trying to reconstruct what happened, it's a lot more difficult to know what will happen. Perhaps best...
... Yes, but predators can bite even better, ; ). What I said is that, even if you throw excellently (like you said de Waal said, ; )), there is no use for...
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